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(1 - 11) of 11 OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh Page   1   "A work as vast, monstrous, and mysteriously graceful as a whale."   Film4   Anton Bitel B "Drawing Restraint 9 is Barney again creating something tenaciously abstract, but this time the result is more serene and approachable."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Primarily for those who fancy New Age-ish Viking howling and admirers of multi-media experimentalist Matthew Barney."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 2.5/4 "Like Björk's Medulla%u2014a heady, not-entirely terrible piece of experimental pop music just short of unlistenable%u2014Drawing Restraint 9 is beautiful, maddeningly indigestible, and impossible to resist."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez F "Hugely tedious...this turgid, opaque, whale-obsessed fiasco might be described as one big, festering hunk of blubber."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 75/100 "[Barney's] pieces are wrought with meaning, and it's best to approach them with the mindset that literally everything on screen is loaded with significance"   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman B "...suffers from the loss of experiencing Barney's visual imagination for the first time. "   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "What is undeniable is that this, even more than Barney's previous work, is a film of outrageous, startling ingenuity and beauty."   Not Coming to a Theater Near You   Leo Goldsmith 2.5/4 "A refreshing break from mind-numbing Hollywood movies, but it may fail to win you over"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes 2/5 "Usually, I like to align myself with out-there talents striving to make deeply personal works but in the case of Matthew Barney, this particular art-world emperor reveals himself to be naked and if he isn’t ashamed, he probably should be."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/4 "Drawing Restraint 9 is a lovely thought, but it's not a surprising one; going out on that proverbial limb, it all might be much ado about nothing."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 11) of 11 OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh Page   1