Metacritic Movie Ratings
9 Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 83

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  Storyboarded with precision, and enhanced with a resonant score by Deborah Lurie, Acker's handsome, feature-length 9 is, for all its visual flights of fancy, grounded in an apocalypse-proof message graspable by any schoolchild.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  The best reason to see it is simply because of the creativity of its visuals. They're entrancing.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  Every effort to expand the range of feature-length animation beyond the confines of cautious family fare is to be welcomed, and budding techno and fantasy geeks are likely to be intrigued and enthralled.

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• 60

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  Design aspects are arresting and the filmmaker's abilities are obvious, but the basic survival story remains slight, just as the general setting, no matter how artfully imagined, is by now pretty familiar.

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• 50

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Long on imaginative design but less substantial in narrative, this dreary story of fighting the power is more numbing than thought-provoking.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  9 never adds up to much. It's a dark adult film that gives itself over to the chases and frights of a kiddie movie.

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