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9 Songs Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    43

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  • 30

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Yet for all its ballyhooed candor about sexual matters, it's a surprisingly baffling and opaque film, too artistic to be standard pornography and too zealously focused on being graphic to the exclusion of all else to succeed as drama.

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  • 30

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

    An examination of a sexual relationship that's about as viscerally explicit as hardcore can get...But as satisfying viewing experiences go, the film comes up mighty short in terms of story, interesting characters and technical prowess.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    As an idea, the film is fascinating, but as an experience it grows tedious; the concerts lack closeups, the sex lacks context, and Antarctica could use a few penguins.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Nobody will go to see Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicit, novelty-act drama - a naughty peep show for sobersides, disguised as a nature documentary - to hear the songs; everyone will go to see the shagging, which occupies the majority of the screen time.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt

    Ingenious with his use of music and hypnotic pacing, Winterbottom keeps us in his world as usual. But this time that world feels ever more gratuitous, meandering and puzzling, with sex that's less and less authentic even though it's real.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Derek Elley

    A touching, often poetic, sometimes achingly real snapshot of a brief encounter related almost entirely through the bedroom.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    9 Songs, for all its failed ambitions and its tinge of sexism, is lovely to watch.

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