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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Using the droll, wise stories of Etgar Keret as her guide, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal concocts an artful film that expresses deep thoughts, lightly. Read full review

  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    A wise, wistful study of hope and dread. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub

    It's an entertaining, depressing and ultimately hopeful movie about the times we live in. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Janice Page

    A movie that entertains and enlightens without being preachy - in fact, most of its beliefs are strenuously ambiguous; that's a key part of the joke. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Though $9.99 manages to be quirky and enigmatic, it is in the end too self-conscious, too satisfied in its eccentricity, to achieve the full mysteriousness toward which it seems to aspire. It is odd, curious, intermittently intriguing but ultimately more interesting for its artifice than for its art. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    A charming, poetic and at times surreal stop-motion animation co-written with Etgar Keret and based on the Israeli writer's short stories. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    There is something undeniable hypnotic and bewitching about Tatia Rosenthal's $9.99, which if nothing else is a candidate for the most unusual film of 2008. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Eddie Cockrell

    A deliberately coarse character style that's more Gumby than Gromit. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times |

    Less than the sum of its parts. The connective tissue of its episodes and set pieces -- some of which pack a memorable punch -- is not a compelling story line but the painterly physicality of the movie's stop-motion animation. Read full review

  • 40
    New York Daily News | Joe Neumaier

    This often haunting stop-motion Claymation movie ultimately suffers from what bedevils many live-action movies culled from short stories: a herky-jerky plot. Read full review

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