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| NZone |
(3 out of 5 stars) "There is the temptation to compare Roman Polanski’s 'The Ninth Gate' with two of 1999’s supernatural thrillers, 'Stigmata' and 'End of Days.'" more... |
| CBC Infoculture: 'The Ninth Gate' leaves viewers trapped in Polanski purgatory |
"You know it hasn't been that great a decade for Roman Polanski movies. In fact, it hasn't been that great of an end-of-the-century for him." more... |
| culturevulture.net |
"'The Ninth Gate' maintains this triumphant feeling for half of its running time, and not even its self-mocking climax can fully extinguish the glow." more... |
| E! Online |
(grade: B-) "Silly as it sounds, 'Gate' is somehow possessing." more... |
| Harvey's Movie Reviews |
"Meticulously crafted but poorly scripted yarn from Roman Polanski following antiquarian book dealer Johnny Depp in search of diabolic texts (allegedly co-written by Satan himself) on behalf of obsessive collector Frank Langella ." more... |
| Hollywood Reporter: 'Ninth Gate' Is Slow-Paced Occult Thriller |
"While Polanski's awesome skills as a director and spinner of mysteries are evident throughout, making the film a satisfying but too-long genre item, the final section is truly a mess, and this 'Ninth' becomes, alas, a silly symphony." more... |
| Moviebodega |
(B-) "Fifteen minutes into his new occult thriller about deception and the Devil, 'The Ninth Gate' has already shown itself to be a perfect primer on the strengths and weaknesses of Polanski." more... |
| Nitrate Online |
"What hell hath Roman Polanski wrought with this laughably silly film version of the novel El Club Dumas by Spanish writer Arturo Perez-Reverte?" more... |
| Orlando Weekly Movies |
(3 out of 5 stars) "'The Ninth Gate' leaves its own gate with a fairly intriguing premise: Boris Balkan (Frank Langella), a wealthy collector of rare books, sends expert Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) to Europe to locate the remaining two copies of an exotic text Balkan has just acquired." more... |
| Radio Free Entertainment |
""A long, boring, dragging movie that takes forever to get nowhere, 'The Ninth Gate' is a feature length Twilight Zone episode that forgot to include a twist ending." more... |
| Salon |
"...an extremely well-made movie." more... |
| Spliced Online: The Devil & Mr. Depp |
"Opening like a cheap horror movie with titles that fly out of computer-animated castle facades, 'The Ninth Gate' has an uphill battle to recover respectability from the very beginning." more... |
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