Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It defies categorisation, which I love, and defies logic, which is very European. But it's also clever, funny and compelling

| Oct 4, 2008

An interesting, if high minded, concept film that is nothing without its performers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2008

The sort of movie that would probably appeal to Ryan Reynolds' detractors . . .

| Aug 27, 2008

August is on solid ground when he's riffing on Stephen King and celebrities, but he's stretching when he tries to be David Lynch, which would require a distinctly different kind of brain damage.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 8, 2008

August may be peddling some absurd New age "secret", but at least it allows him the benefit of stronger and more coherent storytelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 16, 2008

Em sua estria como diretor de longas, August faz jus inteligncia de seu roteiro intrincado, criando uma histria tensa e instigante que surpreende tanto como fico quanto como reflexo metafsica/religiosa. Alm disso, o elenco revela-se fortssimo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2008

When I read that Ryan Reynolds was playing not one, but three characters in this movie -- one of whom is gay -- my ticket pretty much bought itself. They had me at 'himbo'.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 22, 2008

Overall, I responded to The Nines as a sly Cronenbergian chess game of the mind. As impenetrable as it becomes, it's easy to perceive that this is straight-from-the-heart work from August.

| Original Score: B | Jan 16, 2008

The plot tumbles so far down the rabbit hole it breaks its leg and plunges the audience into the dark.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

I have no clue whether this is the most religious film of the year, or the most blasphemous film of the year.

| Original Score: 54/100 | Dec 5, 2007

Let's avoid such extremes, and note merely that he's made a film that's funny ha-ha as well as funny peculiar; an exercise in navel-gazing that tickles all the senses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2007

Definitely worth a look.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2007

It is beguilingly cuckoo, though as primitive visually as The Twilight Zone - it was shot in 22 days - and about as profound.

| Nov 30, 2007

There are plenty of surprises in this amusing Donnie Darko-ish metaphysical thriller, but watching Van Wilder and Blade: Trinity star Ryan Reynolds flex some previously hidden acting chops is the main one.

| Nov 30, 2007

It is pretty familiar material in some ways, and not exactly unpretentious, but very watchable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2007

The film puts a delightful spin on that profound and solipsistic idea that we are the godlike inventors, and moral arbitrators, of our own little worlds. A gem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 30, 2007

An amusing journey through the nature of reality with a bit of Hinduism thrown in that sadly collapses into new-age nonsense towards the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2007

Overly gimmicky and ultimately frustrating it may be, but at its best The Nines feels like a triple-bill of 'Twilight Zone' episodes written by Charlie Kaufman - creepy, oddball and clever.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 30, 2007

With McCarthy and Davis also playing two further roles with suspiciously identical initials, The Nines toys with issues of identity, duality and alternate reality certain to appeal to anyone who's experimented with the virtual avatars of Second Life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2007