9 Songs
  • Studio: Tartan
  • Release Date: Jul 22, 2005
User Score
5.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 29 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 29
  3. Negative: 8 out of 29

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  1. JonathanH.
    Aug 10, 2005
    9
    Thatta it - Atta boy! You're spot on. I left this film feeling touched (so to speak) by the sheer honesty and genuineness of this beautiful piece of work. It ain't porn - it ain't even close! It's life and it's visceral. Not everybody will like this film (well, d'uh!), but it's important not to misconstrue it. Personally, I loved it as much as any other of my favourites. To Winterbottom and your two wonderfully brave actors: thank you!… Expand
  2. attaboy
    Aug 2, 2005
    9
    I loved it, personally, and I add that because I think this is a personal movie. While the characters are doing their thing (concert going or "it"), they act as if the camera isn't present, recalling intamacy between couples, not porn. If you can, think back to days when you just met someone you really connected with basically all you probably did was get it on, and this movie conveys that. For those who have been in a modern relationship, fantasized abot meeting someone at a show, and/or appreciate cinema that pushes the boundaries of decorum, then you'll probably like this. Good bands too.… Expand

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Metascore
43 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 29
  3. Negative: 9 out of 29
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    30
    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.
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  2. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    30
    9 Songs could have been "Last Rock Show in London." Unfortunately, it's stupefyingly dull, even with good music and at the short but resonant length of 69 minutes.
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  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    Never did sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll seem more shopworn and routine.
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