Ewan McGregor.

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The Ghost Writer: This 2010 political thriller got a bit buried by a crummy release date, and by an audience newly aware of Roman Polanski from international-crime news, not the Hollywood trades. If you're not one of the conscientious objectors to Mr. Polanski's work, there's a lot here to like: the director decided to make a film of a very pulpy airport thriller about the muddled, disappointing legacy of a bellicose British Prime Minister, and the writer tasked to organize that politician's life into a memoir. As that ghostwriter, Ewan McGregor lurks around a windy, wintry New England town--if you liked the vistas and super-chilly mood of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, this is for you. If there was ever a man to sell the only slightly inhuman charisma of a Tony Blair type, it was Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Cattrall really sells her role as a devoted secretary. (Really!) The movie's biggest fault, and the best argument for its not ever getting an audience, is the absence of charisma at its center--Mr. Polanski maybe oversells just how much a ghostwriter turns himself into a vacuum around which interesting things swirl.

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