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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 29 Jul 2009

Using the medium of Wallace and Gromit and Gumby, Israeli filmmaker Tatia Rosenthal turns her clay figures into real people in $9.99, a wise,…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 23 Jul 2009

It isn't always clear if the animation is integral to the movie or merely a way of sprucing up its more familiar tales of melancholy and yearning…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Jul 2009

It's an entertaining, depressing and ultimately hopeful movie about the times we live in…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 09 Jul 2009

The film becomes so emotionally involving that the style winds up calling little attention to itself, and real characters emerge…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 30 Jun 2009

While I'm normally all for pushing boundaries and doing things a bit differently, most of the time watching this I could help but feel like…

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By Tricia Olszewski (442) for Washington City Paper (500) on 25 Jun 2009

Unless you're a fan of Keret's, you likely won't get much out of this odd, R-rated trifle…

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By Frederica Mathewes-Green (11) for Christianity Today (953) on 23 Jun 2009

I was intrigued to learn what the filmmakers think the meaning of life is, but the movie merely dances and alludes without coming right down…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 18 Jun 2009

Stop-action animation of painted sculptures creates beautiful, full-bodied characters with bemused sophistication and tender charm, where the…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Jun 2009

Despite everything, many of us still think of animation as a kid's genre…

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By Sara Maria Vizcarrondo (199) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 18 Jun 2009

Utilizes stop-motion animation to explore semi-fantastical ideas that couldn't otherwise be touched on in live-action…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 18 Jun 2009

This often haunting stop-motion Claymation movie ultimately suffers from what bedevils many live-action movies culled from short stories: a…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Jun 2009

Fans of deadpan comic fantasy writers like Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut are likely to be intrigued by this lively little packet of weird…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 18 Jun 2009

[Director] Rosenthal gives the entire production a lovely, fine-art look, and a real feeling that we're looking at life as it's lived -- even…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Jun 2009

Keret’s alternately sweet and bitter sense of humor comes through clearly in $9.99, via warm voicework by vets like Geoffrey Rush and Anthony…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 16 Jun 2009

Animation is so often used for frivolous flights of fancy that it's something of a shock to see it employed in the service of a tale that emphasizes…

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By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Jun 2009

Etgar Keret is sometimes described as Israel's Woody Allen, but this hugely popular humorist is more fanciful and morbid in his evocation of…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Jun 2009

Intriguing as a flawed experiment in animation, nine dollars ninety-nine suffers from a lack of thematic continuity that leaves the audience…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 May 2009

Less than the sum of its parts…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 23 Mar 2009

An oddly compelling stop action animation film with puppets which provides a glimpse into the meaning of life in the adventures of a group…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 22 Dec 2008

There is something undeniable hypnotic and bewitching about Tatia Rosenthal's $9.99, which if nothing else is a candidate for the most unusual…

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