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

  • 70
    Variety | Derek Elley

    A touching, often poetic, sometimes achingly real snapshot of a brief encounter related almost entirely through the bedroom. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    9 Songs, for all its failed ambitions and its tinge of sexism, is lovely to watch. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    It's a smart, provocative idea for a movie. I wish 9 Songs was that movie. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Nobody will go to see Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicit, novelty-act drama - a naughty peep show for sobersides, disguised as a nature documentary - to hear the songs; everyone will go to see the shagging, which occupies the majority of the screen time. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    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 full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Never did sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll seem more shopworn and routine. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    An examination of a sexual relationship that's about as viscerally explicit as hardcore can get...But as satisfying viewing experiences go, the film comes up mighty short in terms of story, interesting characters and technical prowess. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    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 full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    9 Songs inadvertently proves just how limited experimentation for its own sake can be. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    This disappointing new film from director Michael Winterbottom ("24 Hour Party People") suffers from a similar malaise: It's poetic and pretty, strives for profundity without attaining it, and finally ends up saying nothing. Read full review

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