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drek2

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I agree with kohllapse, this movie wanted to be more than it was, unfortunately it fell short. The movie basically has a crash feel to it but with the same characters in the different scenarios. I took me a while to figure out what was going on...
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I agree with kohllapse, this movie wanted to be more than it was, unfortunately it fell short. The movie basically has a crash feel to it but with the same characters in the different scenarios. I took me a while to figure out what was going on but none the less kept me entertained. Ryan Reynolds and Hope Davis play their parts well and I'd recommend it to someone who likes to figure out movies and enjoys something that makes you think

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Posted jul 5, 2008 9:40 pm pt

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it just pretend to be more surrealistic and subjetive movie, but at the end I guess we all understand what happened... but wasnt a bad movie.

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Posted apr 2, 2008 6:27 pm pt

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Slow beginning but once i put the pieces together and understood it more. i came to realize it was an amazing movie and would love to watch it a second time.

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Posted jan 29, 2008 12:20 pm pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  75
  John August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era "Twilight Zone" of image and reality.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  75
  It's an intricate, at times incoherent, but often funny and consistently fascinating trio of stories with the same actors in different but related roles.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  Rather than come across as fantastic or dreamlike, the stories have a vivid, hyperreal quality to them.

  by Carina Chocano | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  70
  This movie is metaphysical fun, and while some elements are predictable, it's an engaging mystery.

  by Jamie Tipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  63
  It's an overall heady conceit about image and invention, clever and fun with compelling lead performances -- especially Reynolds, who finally gets to show some chops in a career littered with Van Wilder-grade junk.

  by Aaron Hillis | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  63
  The payoff fizzles, but the buildup is intriguing until it topples under its own weight.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  60
  The Nines arcs from witty Hollywood insiderdom to a climactic metaphysical leap that may leave many viewers nonplussed. Nonetheless, there's more than enough intelligence, intrigue and performance dazzle to make this an adventuresome gizmo for grownups.

  by Dennis Harvey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  50
  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.

  by Andrew O'Hehir | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  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.

  by Stephen Holden | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  38
  Wavers uncomfortably between satire and dime-store existentialism on the big screen. It's sort of as if Charlie Kaufman rewrote "The Fountain."

  by V.A. Musetto | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  30
  The Nines is the feature-film-directing debut from screenwriter John August (Go, Big Fish), but it feels much more like some Bizarro World collaboration between Jean-Paul Sartre and Charlie Kaufman, and not in a good way, either.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  30
  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.

  by Scott Foundas | Read Full Review »