as in spectral
of or relating to a ghost
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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While Banderas is entertaining playing multiple roles as Hunter and his many ghostly ancestors, Olivia Colman gives the movie’s standout performance as the Reverend Mother of the bear retirement home from which Aunt Lucy vanished.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
The blue-gray color palette — and a ghostly blanket of fog — accents the film’s existential deadpan as the trio head to Istanbul for hair transplant surgery.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
Subplots involving Chief’s crush on Sarah and the setup for a potential collusion charge against the Mayor add interest, but feel like the ghostly remnants of story drafts past as both scenarios contain little payoff.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
The film’s ghostly images are at once flattened and alive, hovering in visual purgatory as scenes begin to feel not only like fever dreams, but out-of-body observations of the dreamers themselves.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
The blue-gray color palette — and a ghostly blanket of fog — accents the film’s existential deadpan as the trio head to Istanbul for hair transplant surgery.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
Subplots involving Chief’s crush on Sarah and the setup for a potential collusion charge against the Mayor add interest, but feel like the ghostly remnants of story drafts past as both scenarios contain little payoff.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
The film’s ghostly images are at once flattened and alive, hovering in visual purgatory as scenes begin to feel not only like fever dreams, but out-of-body observations of the dreamers themselves.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostly. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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