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Nine (2009)

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37

Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 195
Fresh: 72 | Rotten: 123

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.

31

Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 29

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),

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Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts

Anthony Minghella

May 4, 2010

$19.6M

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All Critics (195) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (123) | 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
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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
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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 (3)
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)
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'Nine'/nein

December 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer
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What we get is a film that is close in story to Fellini's film, but which needed more time for its actresses and better music to make it all worthwhile.

September 24, 2012 Full Review Source: Examiner.com
Examiner.com

Day-Lewis, over-egging the angst as well as the Eye-talian accent, is charmless and insufferable. But the person you really want to slap is Marshall, whose brash directing style simply doesn't suit Nine's more whimsical charms.

July 30, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Movie Talk

It has a lot to gnaw on, but it's worth gnawing on.

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

Sensual musical about love and art has mature themes.

December 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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
Quickflix

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
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
TheMovieReport.com

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

May 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies
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
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
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: Cinema Sight
Cinema Sight

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
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
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
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Audience Reviews for Nine

The one outstanding flaw held by the film is that the plot is intriguing, but it barely takes off once established. It's a bit ironic that a film about a man suffering from writer's block has a pretty slight plot. The film is about style, not plot, and that is established within the first fifteen minutes or so. It works out perfectly in its technical work. What makes the film so intoxicating is its stunning visuals, filled with dazzling costume design, choreography, and cinematography. When combined with the wonderful soundtrack, the numbers easily become the most exhilarating points the picture has to offer. The most memorable scene, by a longshot, is "Be Italian", which puts the visuals and music to the absolute best effort.

NINE is a very intriguing film. It's a film that draws the viewer in to its realm of beauty and doesn't dare to let go until the very end. I've stated several times that I'm not very much a fan of musicals or their adaptations. I have several reasons that I won't try to waste time mentioning. But something about CHICAGO director Rob Marshall's unique filmmaking made this film an incredibly enjoyable, entirely watchable experience.

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July 6, 2012
spielberg00

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A famous Italian director (rhymes with Fellini) is stuck for ideas for his next expected blockbuster and along the way he's gotta figure out where his charmed life went wrong. But just because you want to do a meaningful musical though doesn't necessarily guarantee results, even with Rob Marshall directing. On the other hand, you can get smashing performances from some of Hollywood's leading (if not famous for musical) ladies. Penelope Cruz (!), Dame Judi Dench (!), and Kate Hudson (!), not known for being hoofers, particularly crank this mother up.
June 1, 2009
UniversalDreamer

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    1. Guido Contini: ...What happened?
    2. Luisa Contini: You open your mouth and a lie comes out
    3. Guido Contini: What lie?
    4. Luisa Contini: Why am I surprised? It's like breathing to you!
    – Submitted by Dillon C (10 months ago)
    1. Luisa Contini: You're just an appetite. And if you stop being greedy you die. You take everything. And I'm empty!
    – Submitted by Dillon C (10 months ago)
    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 (2 years ago)

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