9 Reviews

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Jim Schembri
The Age (Australia)
December 9, 2009
Looking like a rag-doll version of Terminator Salvation, the film boasts an arresting visual style.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
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Tom Huddlestone
Time Out
October 30, 2009
This film will surely be remembered as an intriguing failure: a triumph of ambition over ability, of ideas over emotional resonance - just another grim fairy tale for these troubled times.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Wendy Ide
Times (UK)
October 30, 2009
It looks great, but sadly the screenplay - in particular the stultifying dialogue - simply can't match the visual inventiveness.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
October 30, 2009
It allegedly lasts 79 minutes. I think it lasted 79 hours, or 79 years, or perhaps 79 times the space of time between the extinction of allosaurus and the rise of Cro-Magnon.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
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Matt Bochenski
Little White Lies
October 30, 2009
The story drifts towards the mawkish without answering any of the big questions it tentatively raises.
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Scott Von Doviak
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
September 11, 2009
There's no denying that Acker has a knack for bleak landscapes and an inventive salvage-yard approach to character design, but his narrative skills are less developed.
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Chris Chang
Film Comment Magazine
October 20, 2014
The new version stays so true to the original you could describe it as a feature-length short-which is not the most staggering accomplishment.
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Shaun Munro
What Culture
January 3, 2012
A potent reminder that not all shorts, even ones as brilliant as Acker's, will necessarily work well as a feature.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5
Heather Wixson
Dread Central
August 10, 2011
9 has a very Coraline-esque tone to it, so if that's a film you enjoyed, then this movie is definitely something worth checking out on the big screen.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Dave White
Movies.com
July 28, 2011
Darkly beautiful to watch.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com
June 2, 2010
Feels unnaturally fleshed out and overthought, dampening the excitement through extensive padding...captivating eye candy, but something of a dramatic spinout.
Full Review | Original Score: C
Paul Chambers
CNNRadio
March 27, 2010
If you're gonna be so downbeat, yah gotta be good. This ain't good. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Full Review | Original Score: D+
Thomas Caldwell
Cinema Autopsy
March 18, 2010
9 is overall an enjoyable and inventive film.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
S. James Wegg
JWR
March 6, 2010
Discovering the truth is good for the soul
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Wesley Lovell
Cinema Sight
January 28, 2010
A throwback to the industrial era, the film doesn't feel as important now as it might have then.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies
January 18, 2010
Proudly mature -- the movie deals much with individual death as well as doomsday -- so it's a welcome work, something we might even dare to call American-style anime.
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10
James O'Ehley
fantastiqueZINE
January 4, 2010
This movie is what would happen if the folks at Pixar were manic depressives . . .
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Karina Montgomery
Cinerina
December 29, 2009
I think if I were not diligently taking notes for this very review I might have folded laundry or something to pass the time... It's a beautiful movie to look at and a clumsy story with a weird ending.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Louis Proyect
rec.arts.movies.reviews
December 21, 2009
Totally lacking in character development. It is like seeing a love story involving toasters.
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Mark R. Leeper
rec.arts.movies.reviews
December 21, 2009
There is a lot that is interesting to see in the world created by Shane Acker but not enough to make the feature film satisfying.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10
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