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100Polanski's directing is marvelously assured and Depp is always fun to watch.
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80Amusing, ultra-deadpan entertainment. The director was lucky enough to have a cast who were in on the joke and tuned in to his wavelength.
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75Elegant, scary fun.
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75The movie falls apart toward the end as it enters "Eyes Wide Shut" territory, but until then, it's fun to see bookworms cast in the James Bond mode.
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Begins to take on a striking resemblance to the infamously bad "Eyes Wide Shut."
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65Fairly enjoyable as an old-fashioned horror yarn -- or, if that doesn't work for you, as a black comedy about an obsessive collector.
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63A devilish little comedy whose urbane, satirical humor will probably sail right over the heads of audiences weaned on Scream.
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60Compulsively watchable and its occasional lapses into that familiar Polanskian overkill are almost charming.
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60So visually striking, so compulsively watchable as storytelling, and so personal even in its enigmas that I found it much more pleasurable than any of the Hollywood genre films I've seen lately.
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58Exotic Ninth Gate breaks down into clichés.
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50Summoning silliness Roman Polanski salutes and spoofs satanic thrillers .
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50Right up to its deliberate thud of a closer, Polanski had me.
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50The script is so bereft of real surprises that it's best to keep the lid on what few there are.
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50As long as Polanski keeps his focus on character and ambiance, the film is an eerie pleasure. But he doesn't, and it degenerates into a second-rate chase movie which takes its supernatural overtones either too seriously or too lightly to be convincing.
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42After a cheeky, campy start, The Ninth Gate leaves you with a bitter and dull aftertaste.
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40This tale may well weave a more compelling spell on the page; onscreen it's simply ponderous.
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40Euro-kitsch of the highest order, which doesn't mean it's necessarily bad, just unnecessary.
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40The whole thing seems to meander aimlessly, rarely creating a chill.
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40Lacking noticeable energy or drive, its almost visceral distaste for dramatic momentum is puzzling, especially in a film about the black arts.
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40About as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of "The Blair Witch Project," and not nearly as funny.
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40This is really a shaggy devil story whose giddy, ironic tone may throw viewers expecting a scary movie.
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38A non-thrilling occult thrillersolame and unoriginal that it would be an embarrassment for any director, much less a talent like Roman Polanski.
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38A film that really has no idea what it wants to be, so it tries a little of everything, and does nothing very well.
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34The once-talented Mr. Polanski is hard to spot.
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33A film not even a star as foxed and foxy as Johnny Depp himself could save.
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30Most of the actors seem to have been issued one facial expression at the beginning of the film, along with pain-of-death instructions not to change it under any circumstance.
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30Never quite becomes unwatchable.
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30A nonsensical mishmash.
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25A supernatural thriller that is neither super, natural, nor thrilling.
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20Polanski, generally, has fallen farther than Lucifer, and into a more profoundly depressing hell, the hell of utter banality.
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sujanawill9The 1st portion was COOL but later part is really bad but depp is excellent.