Polanski revisits Satan with less than devilish fun.

| Sep 14, 2012

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The script is so bereft of real surprises that it's best to keep the lid on what few there are.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's so disappointing for the director of Rosemary's Baby to have to stoop to something as desperate as pyrotechnics and nudity.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The filmmaker takes you on a journey that goes absolutely nowhere.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

On a scene-by-scene basis, it sometimes entertains, but never amounts to anything.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Elegant, scary fun.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It overstays its welcome by 20 minutes or so, just long enough for us to begin to feel a little silly for having so much fun.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

About as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of The Blair Witch Project, and not nearly as funny.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Polanski's sly sense of film-noir conventions pokes fun at the genre while at the same time honoring it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It drags, it clunks, it leaves you stuck between a guffaw and a groan.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The self-immolating and oblivion-bound Ninth Gate is the kind of film that's going to give satanic cults a bad name.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Sexy, sardonic and slightly over the top, it definitely contains Polanski's best work in years.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Early on I thought I could almost smell the sharp must of the leather bindings ... but that scent was just the aroma of middle-brow, art-house Euro-rot, a whiff of decay and hauteur.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 1, 2000

The film never gets around to illuminating much about the lead character.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The worst occult film to star big-name actors in many years, and a startlingly inept and unsatisfying piece of storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

I kept hoping Polanski would take the plot by the neck and shake life into it, but no.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Compulsively watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000