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Nine (2009)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 193
Fresh: 72 | Rotten: 121

It has a game, great-looking cast, led by the always worthwhile Daniel Day-Lewis, but Rob Marshall's Nine is chaotic and curiously distant.

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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 26

It has a game, great-looking cast, led by the always worthwhile Daniel Day-Lewis, but Rob Marshall's Nine is chaotic and curiously distant.

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From the creative team behind the Oscar-winning adaptation of Chicago comes a lavish feature take on the Tony award-winning musical inspired by Federico Fellini's whimsical classic 8 1/2. Directed by Rob Marshall, Nine details the effort made by world-class filmmaker Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) in realizing his latest cinematic vision while simultaneously balancing his relationships with the many passionate and influential women in his life, including his mistress, Carla (Penélope Cruz),

PG-13, 1 hr. 53 min.

Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts

Anthony Minghella

May 4, 2010

$19.6M

The Weinstein Co.

Cast

All Critics (193) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (121) | DVD (3)

Nine is, if not a grand work, terrifically tasty eye and ear candy. Two numbers -- from somewhat unexpected quarters -- are worth the price of admission alone.

December 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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Nine should have been called 4Â 1/2 because it doesn't come close to the work of the master who inspired it.

December 28, 2009 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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The film suffers from the simple fact that its songs aren't memorable.

December 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comments (2)
Detroit News
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It's a movie about a musical about a movie about a man's inner life -- surely we can eliminate some of the middle men.

December 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment (1)
Chicago Reader
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There's a lot of high-powered star wattage in Nine, but it never generates much heat.

December 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Comment (1)
Arizona Republic
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'Nine'/nein

December 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer | Comment
Passionate Moviegoer
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It has a lot to gnaw on, but it's worth gnawing on.

March 11, 2011 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | Comment
Needcoffee.com

Sensual musical about love and art has mature themes.

December 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

While Marshall's Nine may be a bit of cheeky fun, it features little worth recommending it over Fellini's [8 1/2]. It's not so much a 'cover song' as it is a 'dance remix'.

October 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix | Comment

Nine is a searing, carthartic dissection of the creative process; as much as it celebrates the trappings accumulated by those who succeed, it is also an engrossing examination of the deeply-troubled mindset that gets them there.

August 9, 2010 Full Review Source: sbs.com.au | Comment
sbs.com.au

While film allows limitless opportunities to 'open up' a work that originated on the legit stage, Marshall seems intent on making the material feel even more stagebound on the big screen.

May 16, 2010 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Comes across as a very unimaginative re-working, a shallow interpretation.

May 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | Comment
Window to the Movies

Its Broadway brass tunes and mostly non-Italian cast makes Nine feel as Italian as a cold slice of Sbarro pizza.

May 11, 2010 Full Review Source: EDGE Boston | Comment
EDGE Boston

[Director Robert] Marshall and screenwriters Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella can only muster a ridiculous American fantasy of Italian culture and la dolce vita.

May 4, 2010 Full Review Source: MSN.com | Comment
MSN.com

An uneven arrangement of musical numbers surrounding a stage-to-screen adaptation that was a screen-to-stage adaptation in the first place.

April 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | Comment
Oscar Guy

Nine combines a dream cast with a dreamy script and score for a thoughtful and enjoyable musical about art, life and love.

March 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Moving Pictures Magazine | Comment
Moving Pictures Magazine

Un musical desparejo, de gran despliegue visual, con algunos pasajes olvidables y otros muy bien logrados. Lo mejor es el elenco (en especial Daniel Day-Lewis y Marion Cotillard) y el recuerdo del maestro Federico Fellini, en quien se inspira.

March 24, 2010 Comment
Uruguay Total

Fellini is lucky that he didn't live long enough to see this.

March 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | Comment (1)
Philadelphia Weekly

Daniel Day-Lewis' miscasting throws the entire movie off kilter and one is left to contemplate the holes in the material.

February 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Windy City Times | Comments (2)
Windy City Times

Bra%u0107i Weinstein vi%u0161e ne polazi za rukom povratiti "oskarovsku slavu", Devet je inferioran njihovom velikom uspjehu - Chicagu

February 6, 2010 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment (1)
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Nine doesn't remake Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 so much as it pillages the classic film for the purposes of Broadway vamping.

January 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | Comment
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

The lasting impression of Rob Marshall's musical Nine is almost... but not quite.

January 31, 2010 Full Review Source: smh.com.au | Comment
smh.com.au

The musical numbers are delightful but what surrounds them drains the energy provided by those musical moments.

January 27, 2010 Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Nine

Sometimes you need to weigh up your options. Either you go by the director (who happens to have made one of the worst and most overrated films ever with "Chicago") or you go by the actor (who has delivered consistantly memorable performances in his career with "My Left Foot", "Gangs of New York" and "There Will Be

October 14, 2011
MrMarakai

Super Reviewer

A film with fiery passion, an amazing cast of top-talent actresses and the always impressive Daniel Day-Lewis, led by the creative director of "Chicago", Rob Marshall. This is the makings of a great landmark film, however where it falls is the subject matter and the execution of it. The musical Nine is a musical

September 27, 2011
Matthew Roe
Matthew Roe

Super Reviewer

    1. Lilli: Directing a movie is a very overrated job, we all know it. You just have to say yes or no. What else do you do? Nothing. "Maestro, should this be red?" Yes. "Green?" No. "More extras?" Yes. "More lipstick?" No. Yes. No. Yes. No. That's directing.
    – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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