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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 26 May 2006

suffers from the loss of experiencing Barney's visual imagination for the first time…

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By Ben B (1,489) on 26 May 2006

I pirated it. Uh...beautiful images, but what the hell…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 25 May 2006

Like John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy, a surreal, vaguely plausible explanation of why two people are crazy about each other…

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By Will F (100) on 24 May 2006

By far the most bizzare 3 hours of my life were spent watching this very avant garde film…

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By Philip Kennicott (38) for Washington Post (9,851) on 24 May 2006

Sad to say, the new Matthew Barney opus, Drawing Restraint 9, made in collaboration with his main squeeze, Bjork, doesn't advance the Barney…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for New Times (467) on 18 May 2006

Björk appears to have been a good influence on Barney: The soundtrack, which she supervised and participates in, is well worth the time for…

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By Ronald W (146) on 15 May 2006

I so want to like this movie so much. But it's a really tough one. My brain hurts so much to digest what the movie is really about…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 11 May 2006

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…

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By Kenneth Baker (20) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 May 2006

Anyone who puts production gloss above performance, plot, dialogue and editing may thrill to Drawing Restraint 9…

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By Mark Keizer (225) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 05 May 2006

A push/pull experience: The storytelling, what there is of it, pushes us away, but the hypnotic visuals pull us back…

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By Kim Morgan (275) for Reel.com (1,232) on 20 Apr 2006

Barney writes in the press kit that the heart of the piece is 'the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity.' Okay, fine…

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By Carina Chocano (358) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Apr 2006

Ultimately, the scale of the production and the expectation built into the release don't entirely justify the effort…

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By Holly Willis (7) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 19 Apr 2006

It's difficult to see the characters as anyone but Barney and Björk, and the film's binary system, opposing hard and soft, East and West,…

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By Allison Benedikt (153) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Apr 2006

As visually stunning as it is, DR9 is also more than two hours and contains, at best, 10 lines of dialogue, an ear-piercing Bjork score and…

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By Eric Lurio (584) for Greenwich Village Gazette (481) on 05 Apr 2006

It doesn't make any sense, but then this is Matthew Barney, master of the mysterious, and I don't mean that in a good way…

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By Ed Halter (57) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Mar 2006

Those who fear that the mainstream of contemporary art has become little more than an extension of fashion will find no comfort in Drawing…

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By Donald J. Levit (489) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 26 Mar 2006

Primarily for those who fancy New Age-ish Viking howling and admirers of multi-media experimentalist Matthew Barney…

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By Jeremy Heilman (393) for MovieMartyr.com (391) on 19 Sep 2005

[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…

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By Jon Popick (633) for Planet Sick-Boy (616) on 15 Sep 2005

Practically guaranteed to sell more soundtracks than it does box office tickets…

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