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(1 - 19) of 19 OFCS Rating: 68% Fresh Page   1   B+ "Nine Lives does contains a few tedious acting-school-exercise moments. Yet the accumulated power of the vignettes packs a wallop."   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna 2/5 "a film hurtling slowly towards nothing, with little to keep one interested along the way"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti 3.5/4 "You keep waiting for the weak link in the chain, or the half-hearted performance, but they never ever come."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 3.5/4 "...a remarkably powerful little film."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Just as we're growing fond of someone, the vignette ends and we're on to the next woman. It's nine orphan scenes desperately in need of movies to take them home."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "Like a series of acting exercises...by the close it comes to seem a bit thin, promising more than it actually delivers."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "Traces the often imperceptible connections that punctuate our lives and the disconnections with others that cause endless pain, disappointment and loss."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 1.5/4 "What's the point? If I wanted to spend 12 minutes watching someone pushing a cart around a grocery store, I'd go to the local A&P, not sit in a movie theater."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 7/10 "Nine Lives isn't a master work, but it's still a fascinating piece of filmmaking."   DVDTown.com   James Plath '3.5/4' "The cinematic equivalent of a satisfying volume of delicious short stories."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 0/4 "Uh…ewww!"   Slant Magazine   Keith Uhlich B+ "like a concept album, where even the order of play affects the emotional outcome"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "The overall impression is of lives that began before Garcia started shooting and continued after the camera was shut off, a remarkable and quietly haunting achievement."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "[A]dopts the urgency and the immediacy of the stage by eschewing the tricks of film and setting [the] extraordinary cast free in front of the camera..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C "Nine Lives is aimed at femme, feminist film fanatics. I'm not one of them..."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 8/10 "Veering at times towards film school, “Nine Lives” rewards the patient with scalpel-like insights into life as a woman in the USA."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 4.5/5 "...Garcia triumphantly opens our minds which makes him one of a few filmmakers to admire..."   Film Threat   Rory L. Aronsky 4/5 "It's as if we're randomly eavesdropping on the private concerns of one particular neighborhood ... a neighborhood that sure has its fair share of heartache."   DVD Clinic   Scott Weinberg A "Rodrigo Garcia may be the closest thing we have to a master short-story artist working on the big screen."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker  (1 - 19) of 19 OFCS Rating: 68% Fresh Page   1