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$9.99 (2009) Rank 3 Reviews
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Time Out New York
It's cute beyond belief, but we keep waiting for the damn thing to spring to life and bare a sharp set of teeth. There's a fine line, it would seem, between uplift and insanity. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at Time Out New York
Film-Forward
In this first Australian-Israeli co-production, the imaginary cityscape borrows from New York, Tel Aviv, and Sydney. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at Film-Forward
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Hartlaub)
Boston Globe (Janice Page)
A movie that entertains and enlightens without being preachy. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at Boston Globe (Janice Page)
NJ.com
And they bring the story to life, too - a good thing as, like many scripts based on a collection of short stories, there's only the thinnest of threads binding it together. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at NJ.com
New York Post
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 the complete $9.99 movie review at New York Post
The Onion A.V. Club
Rosenthal's animation style at times makes a strange match for Keret's work. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
Slant Magazine
These narratives are little more than pleasantly off-kilter sketches with confounding resolutions, but director Tatia Rosenthal and writer Etgar Keret artfully present them as an interconnected, crosscut network of neighborhood activity. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at Slant Magazine
filmcritic.com
There are minor moments where the narrative lulls (the actual repossession sequence drags) but, as in his short stories, these moments build on Keret's particular bleakness, making the moments when the uncanny appears all the more powerful. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at filmcritic.com
Metromix.com
An Australian-Isreali co-production from New York based filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal, "$9.99" is one of 14 films eligible in the 2008 Academy Awards' animated feature category. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at Metromix.com
I.E. Weekly (Amy Nicholson)
Gorgeous moments of animated surrealism and smart moments of emotional truth, yet the film's labor-intensive puppetry is more memorable than its insights into human behavior. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at I.E. Weekly (Amy Nicholson)
Boxoffice Magazine
As a philosophical pursuit the film feels somewhat thin, though the conceit is perfectly explicit. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Sin Magazine (Austin Kennedy)
Spirituality & Practice
This oddball move is a stop-motion animation feature with puppets directed by Tatia Rosenthal. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at Spirituality & Practice
The Hollywood Reporter
The film reminds one of the famous mantra about "Seinfeld," that the TV sitcom wasn't about anything. "$9.99" raises that existential malaise to this level: It's about nothing, and it's about the Meaning of Life. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
The New York Times
This effect is doubled by the extraordinary technique used in "$9.99" to bring Mr. Keret's world to life. ...read the complete $9.99 movie review at The New York Times
Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
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