Reviews Mixed For 'Ninth Gate'
On the one hand, there is Carrie Rickey, who writes in today's Philadelphia Inquirer: "Leaping Lucifer! Is it possible that Polanski, the legendary director of 'Repulsion,' 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Chinatown,' concocted this bloodless, soulless and airless affair?"
Likewise Jonathan Foreman comments in the New York Post: "For admirers of the work of Roman Polanski, 'The Ninth Gate' is a painful experience."
Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post calls the ocult-themed film something out of "the church of idiocy" and concludes: "Polanski, generally, has fallen farther than Lucifer, and into a more profoundly depressing hell, the hell of utter banality."
On the other hand, Jan Stuart writes in Newsday that the film is the "equivalent of the comfort read: the overstuffed Gothic thriller one hunkers down with by the fireplace."
Peter Howell, in the Toronto Star comments that Polanski is such a good director, "that even his minor works have their fascinations. This one's no exception."
Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News calls the film, a "sly and elegant detective story."
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