The Nines

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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
John August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era "Twilight Zone" of image and reality.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
Rather than come across as fantastic or dreamlike, the stories have a vivid, hyperreal quality to them.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
The movie never fails to be crisply written and cannily delivered, but it's way too steeped in TV-culture inside jokes for its own good, and August's attempts to suffuse the whole thing with ontological or theological meaning are ultimately pretty dumb.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Think of it as a kind of “Twilight Zone 2007” in which the paranoia endemic to an industry that runs on illusion, hype and extravagant grandiosity comes home to roost.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Scott Foundas
It's hardly a novel idea, but at least when Kaufman, David Lynch, or Michel Gondry invites us on a tour of his chaotic subconscious, it's a fascinating place to visit. Plunging into August's gray matter is more like a season in vacation hell.Read Full Review »
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