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Critics Consensus: The 9th Life of Louis Drax is intriguing and visually compelling, but its disparate parts are never truly woven into a satisfying whole.
Critic Consensus: The 9th Life of Louis Drax is intriguing and visually compelling, but its disparate parts are never truly woven into a satisfying whole.
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (40)
A dopey psychological thriller that combines elements of "The Sixth Sense" with an overbearing sentimentality, "The 9th Life of Louis Drax" flat-lines from beginning to end.
Works as both a children's movie for adults and a grownup movie for kids, a rare balancing act most young-adult fare can't pull off.
What might be engrossing in Liz Jensen's source novel is oddly opaque in this screen mishmash, and much of what's meant to be tense or suspenseful is merely awkward.
The 9th Life of Louis Drax excels at grabbing you with a steady stream of provocative and ornate images. But to what end, I'm still not sure.
Either you'll be willing to go with some of its wilder visual conceits or you won't. (I was, for the most part.)
An intriguing but uneven thriller that doesn't fully establish the tone and style that would be needed for an audience to accept its supernatural plot.
There was potential for The 9th Life of Louis Drax to be something more than it is, but it just holds itself back in so many different ways.
The 9th Life of Louis Drax is a quirky and atmospheric film noir. It's a stylish and sinister head-scratcher that will keep you hooked until its epic conclusion.
A confused, misanthropic mess from start to finish, the gorgeous to look at and admittedly well performed adult fantasy The 9th Life of Louis Drax doesn't make a lick of emotional or logical sense.
Alexandre Aja's film has several flaws, but at least it's pleasantly odd.
Amazing 9-year-old with 9 lives and counting.
There's no doubt the film has its problems, but director Alexandre Aja always ensures it has style, if not much substance.
The film has style and imagination that keeps this from being a complete a typical film. The actors are well cast and the conclusion adds further depth but there is something missing that stops this film from being anything more. The pacing is slow and kind of unavoidable with the style and direction but this story doesn't gel like it should. It is similar in the story sense like Horns which also failed to connect the high concept with story elements. I liked the film and found the overall arc interesting, just not a film for everyone.
Super Reviewer
A great might have been that slipped in the stitching together of its disparate parts. Still interesting although a confusing mash by the forced ending.
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