$9.99
Regent Releasing | Release Date: June 19, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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12
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3
Negative:
0
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91
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Using the droll, wise stories of Etgar Keret as her guide, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal concocts an artful film that expresses deep thoughts, lightly. Read full review
91
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Despite everything, many of us still think of animation as a kid's genre. $9.99, based on stories by Etgar Keret who also co-wrote the script with the director, is an attempt to use the animation medium to express an entirely adult sensibility. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A wise, wistful study of hope and dread. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Keret’s alternately sweet and bitter sense of humor comes through clearly in $9.99, via warm voicework by vets like Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
Fans of deadpan comic fantasy writers like Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut are likely to be intrigued by this lively little packet of weird -- then dive like a dolphin into Keret's loopy story volumes. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJanice Page
A movie that entertains and enlightens without being preachy - in fact, most of its beliefs are strenuously ambiguous; that’s a key part of the joke. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
It's an entertaining, depressing and ultimately hopeful movie about the times we live in. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin Wilson
$9.99 may not be entirely successful from a dramatic perspective, and it certainly offers little enlightenment about the meaning of life. But the film is so intriguing in other ways that it's definitely worth a look. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
The stop-motion animated puppets in Tatia Rosenthal’s beguiling first feature look like clay-mated slabs of glazed meat, at once unreal and hyper-real. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
There is something undeniable hypnotic and bewitching about Tatia Rosenthal's $9.99, which if nothing else is a candidate for the most unusual film of 2008. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Though $9.99 manages to be quirky and enigmatic, it is in the end too self-conscious, too satisfied in its eccentricity, to achieve the full mysteriousness toward which it seems to aspire. It is odd, curious, intermittently intriguing but ultimately more interesting for its artifice than for its art. Read full review
70
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
A charming, poetic and at times surreal stop-motion animation co-written with Etgar Keret and based on the Israeli writer's short stories. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri Linden
Less than the sum of its parts. The connective tissue of its episodes and set pieces -- some of which pack a memorable punch -- is not a compelling story line but the painterly physicality of the movie's stop-motion animation. Read full review
50
VarietyEddie Cockrell
A deliberately coarse character style that's more Gumby than Gromit. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
This often haunting stop-motion Claymation movie ultimately suffers from what bedevils many live-action movies culled from short stories: a herky-jerky plot. Read full review
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