Ghost Trail

An intimate study of trauma that plays with the gripping suspense of a globetrotting spy thriller.

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...

Jonathan Millet’s “Ghost Trail” takes a mostly conventional approach to this [crime thriller] blueprint, in which a protagonist loses his head (and his humanity), but it offers a novel context: the Syrian refugee crisis.

Jonathan Millet’s film is unconvincing and unnaturally contorted into its shape.

If the best revenge is living well, it is a truism that has not yet taken root for Hamid (a riveting Adam Bessa), the dark, scarred heart of Jonathan Millet‘s brooding, gripping Ghost Trail.

[Jonathan Millet and Adam Bessa's] combined efforts allow the film to marry some of the best aspects of spy thrillers and slow cinema in a portrait of the ways that wars haunt us long after we escape them.

A masterfully restrained film with swirling storms always brewing underneath its surface.


Emphasizing humanity over politics, this quietly powerful thriller builds a steady melancholy tension in a way that feels urgent without turning heavy-handed.

Ghost Trail is an effective thriller, to be sure, but mostly because it's one with an overwhelming sense of regret and an active conscience.

Ghost Trail is an impressive narrative feature debut, blending mystery and intrigue into a quiet character study.