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The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016) - Critic Reviews - Page 2 of 3

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 01 Sep 2016

Louis Drax is a disaster…

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By Michael Nordine (446) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 Sep 2016

Louis Drax” is a curious melding of sensibilities, as eager to show off its mysteries as it is to neatly resolve them…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 01 Sep 2016

Works so hard to keep us off-balance, to make us wonder where, exactly, it's going, that it can't help but wind up at a disappointing end…

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By Katherine Monk (493) for Ex-Press.com (333) on 01 Sep 2016

Part of the successful detour around the plot potholes is the moody location…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 01 Sep 2016

By the time director Alexandre Aja brings together the pieces with an illuminating pang of emotion, most viewers’ confusion will have given…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 01 Sep 2016

Aja, while not at the height of his powers, still does a marvelous job, managing to keep the melodramatic nature of the scenario from overwhelming…

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By Daniel Goodwin (35) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 01 Sep 2016

The 9th Life of Louis Drax's flowers from its drama into a paranoid fantasy masterpiece that's as equally enthralling as it is magical…

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By Jonathan Hatfull (125) for SciFiNow (378) on 01 Sep 2016

It's hard to describe it as a success, but this is a laudable attempt at something unusual…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 01 Sep 2016

While the film is rather mannered, it's also sleek and visually engulfing…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 01 Sep 2016

Sometimes it can be good to think outside the box, but this strange, unsettling mishmash of dark fantasy, disturbing behavior, and child psychology…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 01 Sep 2016

an uneasy blend of the straightforwardly naturalistic and the whimsically fantastic, a combination that probably worked better on the page…

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By Simi Horwitz (83) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Sep 2016

None of it really makes much sense, nor is it cohesive stylistically-it has a low-rent feel…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2016

All that bravura filmmaking — the elaborate camera moves and colorful images and unexpected angles — is fascinating from both technical…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Sep 2016

Unfortunately the truth of The 9th Life of Louis Drax quickly becomes evident because there aren’t many suspects…

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By Trevor Johnston (624) for Radio Times (2,421) on 01 Sep 2016

There is lots to take on board before the sinister, slightly surreal whodunnit narrative really gets going and then it's delivered with hallucinatory…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 01 Sep 2016

The result is an intriguing but uneven thriller that doesn’t fully establish the tone and style that would be needed for an audience to accept…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 01 Sep 2016

A muddled, boneheaded, laughable fantasy drama that stumbles from the gate and never finds its purpose…

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By Poppy Doran (5) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 01 Sep 2016

Confusing narrative and tonal shifts suggest Aja is meant for horror only…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Sep 2016

For Aja, who has demonstrated an appetite for truly twisted material in the past, it all adds up to a disappointingly tame outing…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 01 Sep 2016

The feature ends up a frustrating mess of ideas that aren't gifted time to develop organically, watching Minghella stuff everything into the…

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