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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe Nine Muses is the kind of nonfiction film I actively hope for: a picture of intuitive, free-associational power that cuts far deeper emotionally than a dry recitation of dates and facts could ever hope to.
- 80VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerAkomfrah's steady, patient pace makes it fairly easy and ultimately fascinating to absorb his many heady references.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberNine Muses is clearly the work of a talented filmmaker, and there are many moments to beguile the ears as well as the eyes. Yet it's a long slog through a few thousand years of myth and history, and most viewers are likely to grow impatient during the journey.
- 50Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonThe result is not without beauty, though at a certain point, one begins to notice that each new muse rather resembles the previous, a uniformity that restrains the film from true symphonic swell.
- At once austere and conceptually overwrought, The Nine Muses is both too much and not enough.