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Nine Lives (2005) Rank 2 Reviews
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Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
The tenth story is the technique, a difficult combination of story design and staging choreography. It earns a Bravo! ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Boxoffice Magazine (Annlee Ellingson)
The writing here is especially eloquent -- Garcia is the son of novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- suffused with maxims that somehow transcend the maudlin. ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Annlee Ellingson)
Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
The performances are all superb despite the fact that the direction is haphazard and the super-16 film makes the whole thing look rather cheesy. ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Phoebe Flowers)
These little stories (whose overlaps feel mostly like an afterthought) never really connect. ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Phoebe Flowers)
Zap2it.com (Dan Fienberg)
It's unclear why Garcia continues to choose to limit himself to these diluted portraits, rather than the layered and textured worlds that his writing and directing hint at. ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at Zap2it.com (Dan Fienberg)
Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
Taken together, the tales don't add up to much, but some of the individual pieces are sensitive and keenly perceptive, containing fine work by a stellar roster of actresses. ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
Newark Star-Ledger (Lisa Rose)
For a film centered on connection and continuity, Nine Lives is curiously erratic. ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at Newark Star-Ledger (Lisa Rose)
Village Voice (Laura Sinagra)
In yet another roundelay that, like "Crash" and "Heights," follows the "Short Cuts" template of cosmic interconnection. ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at Village Voice (Laura Sinagra)
filmcritic.com (Chris Barsanti)
filmcritic.com (Chris Barsanti)
a film hurtling slowly towards nothing, with little to keep one interested along the way ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Barsanti)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Movies like this usually have something interesting to say about the human condition, but not Nine Lives. It makes an insufferably obvious observation: we live boring lives, s**t happens, and we die. ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
What's the point? If I wanted to spend 12 minutes watching someone pushing a cart around a grocery store, I'd go to the local A&P, not sit in a movie theater. At least then I could get the week's shopping done. Nine Lives is a failed experiment - an attem ...read the complete Nine Lives movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
FilmJerk.com (Cassy Havens)
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