$9.99

The flights of fantasy are not what you would call upbeat or optimistic elements of the movie.....Rosenthal has assembled an impressive voice cast to help bring her world to life:.... ... Full Review

The settings are beautiful, the dialogue is often funny....it's capable of being dramatic.....Tatia Rosenthal's $9.99 isn't quite as good....It may be deliberate, an attempt to make the characters seem more dazed-looking, befitting a story of urban angst.... ... Full Review

Technically, the movie is fantastic.....This definitely isn't a kid-friendly homage to the Ray Harryhausen "Sinbad" films..... ... Full Review

The gestures and expressions of these handmade citizens of a meticulously realized city are given more poignancy by the slight hesitancy imposed by stop-motion animation.....to allow astonishment at the film's visual texture to give way to impatience with its story..... ... Full Review

the characters resemble more pliable versions of the wooden puppets in the "South Park" offshoot....The animation is sufficient, if not exactly stunning to look at.... ... Full Review

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, wistful study of hope and dread. ... Full Article

The menfolk in the animated feature "$9.99" can be a sulky lot. Rosenthal's strong debut feature is a study in guydom. Granted, these inhabitants of an urban apartment building - a fusion of Tel Aviv, Sydney and New York -... ... Full Article

Featuring full-frontal nudity, dour characters and beanbag chairs made from the ex-boyfriends of a supermodel who's obsessed with smooth skin, "$9.99" strikes a far different tone from most animated fare. ... Full Article

If the meaning of life could be had for less than $10, it makes perfect sense that it would be discovered first by clay figures in a stop-motion animated film. ... Full Article

Based on the short stories of Etgar Keret, and adapted for the screen by Etgar Keret and director Tatia Rosenthal, "$9.99" is a stop motion animated feature which offers slightly less than $10 worth about the meaning of life. ... Full Article

Stop-motion animated fable about life and death at an apartment complex. At the Landmark Sunshine (1:18). Not rated: Nudity, sexuality, violence. This often haunting stop-motion Claymation movie ultimately suffers from what bedevils many live-action movies culled from short stories: a... ... Full Article