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9

Focus Features | Release Date: September 9, 2009

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60	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews

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88

Boston Globe

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

83

Entertainment Weekly

Lisa Schwarzbaum

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

83

Portland Oregonian

At barely an-hour-and-a-quarter in length, it's one of those very rare feature films that you wish were longer. Read full review

75

ReelViews

James Berardinelli

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

75

Baltimore Sun

Not a perfect 10, but its imperfection is what makes it gripping and bewitching. Read full review

75

New York Post

IF 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. Read full review

75

San Francisco Chronicle

Taking your very small child to this movie is only a slightly better idea than a trip to "The Final Destination." With that warning out of the way, this action adventure is a big treat for more mature animation and science-fiction fans and a triumph for the young director. Read full review

75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Watching 9 , we know how 8 feels. Sci-fi fans will find heaven in Shane Acker's feature-film debut. Read full review

75

The A.V. Club

It’s a perfectly functional, fairly scary kids’ film, with plenty of craft and creativity to keep adults occupied. But with a story as sophisticated as its visuals, it could have been much more. Read full review

75

Chicago Sun-Times

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

70

The New York Times

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

70

The New Yorker

And here's the strangest thing of all: it works. [September 14, 2009, pg.ll4]

63

Miami Herald

The 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. Read full review

63

Philadelphia Inquirer

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

63

Chicago Tribune

Michael Phillips

Something has gone slightly awry, however, en route from the 11-minute film to the 79-minute edition of 9. Read full review

63

New Orleans Times-Picayune

9, though animated, isn't really a movie for kids. The problem is that, despite its strikingly original set-up and its cool steampunk visual vibe, it's not much of a movie for grown-ups, either. Read full review

63

Rolling Stone

I only wish this richly imaginative movie had stayed truer to the dark heart of its visuals. Read full review

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