Dear Mr. Winterbottom. Intercutting unsimulated sex scenes with concert footage does not a movie make. Love, David B.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 9, 2019

Winterbottom proves that nonstop sex intercut with alternative music can be exceedingly boring.

| Jun 14, 2018

The film is not great. It's not even all that good. And sometimes, it's actively annoying.

| Jan 12, 2018

One cannot entirely condemn Winterbottom, because the film is not without its meritorious moments, yet at the same time, 9 Songs doesn't effectively traverse the line of glorified pornography, so much as it narrowly scrapes past it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 3, 2012

It has the rough, penciled-in feel of a sketch, flurries of palpable physicality left along the path of a dissolving relationship

| Sep 5, 2009

"9 Songs" is high-art pornography that doesn't neglect its compulsory gooey payoff scene.

| Original Score: C | Apr 15, 2009

Une %u0153uvre pour le moins inhabituelle qui, sans être un exercice de style complètement futile, n'est toutefois pas un film que l'on pourrait qualifier d'essentiel.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 26, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

I like to think -- and please indulge me on this -- that my reaction to the controversial 9 Songs has more to do with the limitations of Michael Winterbottom's latest cinematic experiment than with any of my own nihilistic-horndog tendencies.

| Jan 8, 2006

The most sexually explicit legit feature film to come out of 'merry ole' England from a mainstream director.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 16, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2005

As satisfying viewing experiences go, the film comes up mighty short in terms of story, interesting characters and technical prowess, not to mention a 65-minute running time.

Full Review | Nov 1, 2005

Seventy minutes of pneumatic sex without the trappings of characterization, plot or even attempted meaning can be a profoundly long time.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Oct 14, 2005

At least some skin flicks try to add a story to the sex.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2005

There's not much to take away from 9 Songs unless you're watching it at home... alone... preferably with some lotion.

Full Review | Oct 13, 2005

Nice folks, fun time, thanks for the peek (I guess), and so what?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 6, 2005

Five decades after the rest of the world twigged to it, Michael Winterbottom has discovered a connection between sex and rock 'n' roll. Bully for him.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2005

Given the graphic sex scenes, it is surprisingly dull. The music isn't great, either, now that we think about it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2005

It is, at its (hard)core, a traditional sex movie with better music and naturalistic situations.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2005

Maybe the Nine Songs way -- showing us how they respond to each other in intimate moments and what sort of music moves them -- is a more direct route inside their heads.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2005