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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisAny optimism in 9, which is bound to try the fortitude of meeker children, feels hard-won. It actually ends in a bittersweet mystery.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumStoryboarded 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.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis 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.
- 75Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowNot a perfect 10, but its imperfection is what makes it gripping and bewitching.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickIF you ask me, Shane Acker's post-apocalyp tic animated film 9 is better than the live-ac tion flick "District 9." Beyond their similar titles, these sci-fi social commentaries are both expanded from shorts under the sponsorship of a world-class director.
- 63Miami HeraldConnie OgleMiami HeraldConnie OgleThe film isn't particularly original, but its dark mood, end-of-times landscape and unique characters will seem fresher to the young audience for which it's aiming than to jaded sci-fi veterans.
- 60VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyDesign 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.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe result is never as gripping in narrative terms--a well-worn litany of dystopian-future chestnuts--as it is visually.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt9 never adds up to much. It's a dark adult film that gives itself over to the chases and frights of a kiddie movie.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFor all the Saturday-matinee heroics, the movie is dreary and monotonous, the vision junky in more ways than one.