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Revolution #9
Metascore
63 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    Revolution #9, which is absorbing and terse, has some subtle, welcome comic relief from Spalding Gray.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    80
    An unadorned, unsparing chronicle of a young man's descent into a nightmare of delusion, paranoia and self-destructive behavior.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    80
    Just about everyone in this sharp, passionate feature is chillingly good.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    By alternating between Jackson's and Kim's point of view, McCann shows both sides of the story: the panicky fear of the paranoid schizophrenic -- the arrhythmic editing and Marshall Grupp's masterful sound design convey a sense of dislocation and shifting reality -- and the bewilderment and frustration of the people who try to help him.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    70
    While the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel, they're presented with a wry dark humor.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    70
    Looks with fresh eyes at a new millennium in which, seemingly, the entire world is bought and sold in neatly wrapped packages engineered for mass consumption.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    63
    McCann's point of view overwhelms the human elements of his story, but this is, nonetheless, a riveting piece of filmmaking.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Megan Lehmann
    63
    McCann weaves in a somewhat toothless condemnation of a bureaucracy that forsakes the mentally ill, but Revolution # 9 works better as an inside look at one person's slide into madness -- and, more particularly, the impact of that on his loved ones.
  9. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    50
    Though woefully oblique and underdeveloped, writer-director Tim McCann's Revolution #9 attempts the difficult task of burrowing into the fractured mind of a modern man who loses his grip on reality.
  10. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    40
    So riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along, while McCann's overly broad strokes miss crucial details as he tries to mount an attack on both the power of the media and an indifferent medical profession.
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