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Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: An expertly blended mix of live music and real sex. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: It looks like what most young adults go through in the spirit of trust and limitlessness. Read more
Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle: This disappointing new film from director Michael Winterbottom suffers from a similar malaise: It's poetic and pretty, strives for profundity without attaining it, and finally ends up saying nothing. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: It's stupefyingly dull, even with good music and at the short but resonant length of 69 minutes. Read more
Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: If you're a fan of the 'now' bands on the soundtrack or an art film buff (or a dirty old man), 9 Songs may appeal. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie's like a mix tape that alternates the same two songs; it's ultimately too dull to be an outrage. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Yet for all its ballyhooed candor about sexual matters, it's a surprisingly baffling and opaque film, too artistic to be standard pornography and too zealously focused on being graphic to the exclusion of all else to succeed as drama. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Ultimately each move toward breaking a barrier or assaulting a taboo is undercut by a reliance on conformity and convention. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Witnessing so much heavy breathing with little meaning, we feel like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate when he asks bored bedmate Ann Bancroft if they can have a conversation first. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: 9 Songs is an experiment few serious filmmakers will want to replicate, and most of the people involved will want to forget as quickly as possible. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The filmmaker has said he wants 9 Songs to be drama about real sex that's not erotic. As if an admission of erotic intent somehow cheapens the aesthetics. And so a viewer's question might reasonably be, Who are ya kidding? Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: 9 Songs is one of those vaguely forged ideas that never stops being vague. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's no greater point to this footage, no connection to the characters or the theme; just top bands playing great songs. It looks like a collection of music videos, just as the rest of the film looks like a connection of porn loops. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Using solely explicit sex to tell a story is something new for a non-triple-X project, but it's not always a pretty sight. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Michael Winterbottom's film is a lyrical, graphically explicit chronicle of an ordinary love affair between two attractive people. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: As an idea, the film is fascinating, but as an experience it grows tedious; the concerts lack closeups, the sex lacks context, and Antarctica could use a few penguins. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The fun and pleasure of sex are relatively easy to put on film. But subtler shades of feeling and doubt, which sometimes change almost from night to night in the early stages of a relationship, are harder to capture, and that's what Winterbottom gets. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A pointless and pretentious cocktail of sex, rock 'n' roll and glaciology. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Five decades after the rest of the world twigged to it, Michael Winterbottom has discovered a connection between sex and rock 'n' roll. Bully for him. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Neither lurid nor especially compelling. Read more
Derek Elley, Variety: A touching, often poetic, sometimes achingly real snapshot of a brief encounter related almost entirely through the bedroom. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Love it or not, 9 Songs amounts to a common human rite fastidiously caught in amber, giving off no heat or joy but crystallized for the future. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Never did sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll seem more shopworn and routine. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: 9 Songs succeeds as an experiment in one regard, ultimately proving that sex and drugs just aren't as cinematic as good old rock-and-roll. Read more