| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 28, 2007

Drawing Restraint 9 belongs to an endangered species of experimental film that walks the line between challenging and alienating its audience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2006

Throughout, Barney drowns the screen in arresting images ... that nail your eyes to the screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2006

Sitting through the film's tedious unfolding can be an interesting mental exercise.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 1, 2006

Like John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy, a surreal, vaguely plausible explanation of why two people are crazy about each other.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2006

Doesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the Cremaster series.

| May 25, 2006

Allegedly all these incidents connect symbolically in Barney's mind, but in the viewer's, they thud, inert and separate as stones.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 12, 2006

The experience is at times taxing, but the imagery ... is undeniably arresting and sticky.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2006

An overblown home movie with almost no dialogue.

| Apr 19, 2006

Slow and repetitive, the film might be worth a few minutes of attention when encountered on a video screen in a museum display, but at 135 minutes it doesn't provide much reward for a viewer's rapt attention.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2006

It's hard to shake the sense that there's less here than meets the eye, but what meets the eye burns with a rare intensity.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 6, 2006

As visually stunning as it is, DR9 is also more than two hours and contains, at best, 10 lines of dialogue, an ear-piercing Bjork score and no discernible plot.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2006

Matthew Barney's visually spellbinding film is a work that might be described as the artist's Moby-Dick.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 29, 2006

As magical as DR9 may be, it isn't for everyone. Devotees of Bjork and Barney will think they're in heaven, while Mr. and Ms. Cineplex will be reminded of a much warmer place.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2006

An unsatisfying marriage of excessive production values with insipid cinematography and flat-footed editing.

| Mar 28, 2006

Like Björk's Medulla%u2014a heady, not-entirely terrible piece of experimental pop music just short of unlistenable%u2014Drawing Restraint 9 is beautiful, maddeningly indigestible, and impossible to resist.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 19, 2006

A tapestry of sensuous, striking and sometimes disturbing imagery, Drawing Restraint 9 marks the latest cinematic visit to the wacky world of experimental artist Matthew Barney.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2005