9 Songs, for all its failed ambitions and its tinge of sexism, is lovely to watch.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its DIRECTNESS is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.Read Full Review »
Neither lurid nor especially compelling. This is the triumph, and the limitation, of 9 Songs: it makes explicit movie sex ordinary--as ordinary as the sexual activities of most of the folks watching it.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
It's a smart, provocative idea for a movie. I wish 9 Songs was that movie.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Winterbottom never provides the empathic connective tissue we expect. Love it or not, 9 Songs amounts to a common human rite fastidiously caught in amber, giving off no heat or joy but crystallized for the future.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
9 Songs could have been "Last Rock Show in London." Unfortunately, it's stupefyingly dull, even with good music and at the short but resonant length of 69 minutes.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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