Ghostbusters
2 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
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After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.
What critics thought
Ghostbusters earned broadly positive notices on release, with Bill Murray's performance standing out as a near-universal highlight — critics across the board found his deadpan improvisational energy the engine that keeps the film alive. The main fault lines ran through the ensemble chemistry, the escalating special effects, and an apocalyptic finale that several reviewers felt traded the film's comedic looseness for expensive spectacle.
“Murray's lines fall on dead air”
Pauline Kael·The New Yorker
“thinking on a grandly comic scale”
Richard Schickel·Time
Genres
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
DirectorIvan Reitman
StarringBill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis
ComposerElmer Bernstein
Ghostbusters
2 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.
What critics thought
Ghostbusters earned broadly positive notices on release, with Bill Murray's performance standing out as a near-universal highlight — critics across the board found his deadpan improvisational energy the engine that keeps the film alive. The main fault lines ran through the ensemble chemistry, the escalating special effects, and an apocalyptic finale that several reviewers felt traded the film's comedic looseness for expensive spectacle.
“Murray's lines fall on dead air”
Pauline Kael·The New Yorker
“thinking on a grandly comic scale”
Richard Schickel·Time
Genres
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Cast & Crew
DirectorIvan Reitman
StarringBill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis
ComposerElmer Bernstein
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