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"[A]fter all this time, a role that suits his rocklike demeanor perfectly and makes virtues of his expressive limitations" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Slow-paced and minimalist, the film is hailed as an anti-blockbuster: It "achieves a rare, and rarely earned, emotional depth ...
The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty describes it as "a ghost story that thinks it's a murder mystery," complete with Arctic Circle chase scenes at the end.
The film is a "devastating critique of the hetero male ego," says David Ansen of Newsweek . The direction, however, is dismissed by Rafferty as "amateurish."
This is a familiar debate, but Rafferty turns the usual cant around.
The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty differs, denouncing the film's "killjoy moralism": It "isn't at all the sort of spectacle that audiences for romantic comedies expect, or deserve."