9

Any optimism in 9, which is bound to try the fortitude of meeker children, feels hard-won. It actually ends in a bittersweet mystery.Read Full Review »

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.Read Full Review »

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

This is post-apocalyptic adventure as imagined for a teen crowd, and what it lacks in depth it makes up for in action. With a slight running time of 80 minutes, 9 doesn't contain an ounce of fat on its animated bones.Read Full Review »

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.Read Full Review »

I only wish this richly imaginative movie had stayed truer to the dark heart of its visuals.Read Full Review »

In 50 years, film lovers will look back on 9 as the debut feature of an original talent.Read Full Review »

Does 9 rival last year's "Wall E" as the best post-apocalyptic "cartoon"? The short answer is Nein. 9 is, however, a visual stunner.Read Full Review »

The result is never as gripping in narrative terms--a well-worn litany of dystopian-future chestnuts--as it is visually.Read Full Review »

Danny Elfman's swooping orchestral soundtrack only adds to the sense of by-the-numbers familiarity. Elfman's signature sound is so associated with Tim Burton movies that it overwhelms this film's chances of carving out an aesthetic space of its own.Read Full Review »