Ghost Trail
Music Box Films | Release Date: May 30, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
VarietyJessica KiangApr 23, 2025
Millet’s expertly tooled movie is far from the first to derive its moral stakes from the desire to find some measure of redress for the victims and survivors of political violence, but it is among the best to also crossbreed this familiar archetype with the urgency and topicality of the Syrian refugee crisis. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschApr 23, 2025
It’s a juicy piece of entertainment that also engages sincerely with its painful, topical subject matter. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMay 30, 2025
Ghost Trail is an intimate study of trauma that plays with the gripping suspense of a globetrotting spy thriller. Read full review
83
IndieWireChristian ZilkoApr 23, 2025
Ghost Trail is a film that refuses to let anyone treat the plight of Syrians like a thing of the past, or to delude themselves into thinking that the war ends once Syrians are relocated to safer countries. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 18, 2025
The movie sweeps ambitiously across Europe and the Middle East and shows us a complex world of pain. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesMay 30, 2025
Mr. Bessa’s performance is a pained and bitter thing, his character committed to some form of justice even if the attempt to get it keeps him submerged in a traumatic past. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterApr 23, 2025
While the thriller element remains compelling, it is ultimately eclipsed by the gripping focus on a man haunted by the past. Read full review
75
The Film StageAnkit JhunjhunwalaApr 23, 2025
Ghost Trail leaves a lasting impression, especially from its redemptive ending where choices are made to reward the audience’s emotional and moral investment. The film communicates a sense of hope for a displaced people, a roadmap to the future, the possibility of absolution. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaMay 29, 2025
The cat-and-mouse game, which involves Hamid tracking his suspect throughout campus, plays out in a relatively low-key manner, with the film relying on Bessa (and eventually, an eerie Barhom) to deepen the survivor’s dilemma. Read full review
60
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsSep 23, 2025
It studiously documents the various ways that Hamid makes his case, even though there’s never that much depth to the character beyond his cloak-and-dagger maschinations and a pressing desire for justice. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineMarshall ShafferMay 27, 2025
Jonathan Millet’s film is unconvincing and unnaturally contorted into its shape. Read full review
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