'Ghost' an Old-Style Intelligent Thriller -- Adult Mystery Is One of Polanski's Best Films in Years

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The body that washes up on shore at the start of "The Ghost Writer" is not the first of many, which may surprise moviegoers accustomed to the bloodshed and chaos that characterize the modern so-called thriller.

Roman Polanski, director of "The Ghost Writer," certainly has contributed his share of clutching hands, flashing knives and other frights to film history. (His gory 1971 "Macbeth" is widely interpreted as his reaction to the Manson family murder of his pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate.) But Polanski, like Hitchcock, is better described as a master of suspense than of shock, and "The Ghost Writer" is a methodical, intelligent, adult mystery of a type that, for the most part, has vanished from movie screens.

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'Ghost' an Old-Style Intelligent Thriller -- Adult Mystery Is One of Polanski's Best Films in Years

Ewan McGregor plays "the ghost," a veteran ghostwriter (his previous book, written for a magician, was titled...

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