Katina Vangopoulos Moviedex Oct 29, 2010 2/5

After the smooth finish of Mary and Max earlier this year, $9.99 can't match up with its similar dark themes.

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Simon Foster sbs.com.au Aug 9, 2010

There is so much to admire about the skill involved in the stop-motion craft, but all films, regardless of their devices, rise or fall on their story, which is abstract and unengaging in $9.99.

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Betsy Sherman Boston Phoenix Dec 16, 2009 3/4

Director Tatia Rosenthal's inspiration was to populate the proceedings with animated 3-D figures; her cerebral, darkly funny film is a feat of stop-motion rumination.

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Dan Fainaru Screen International Dec 16, 2009

Like most episode pieces, Rosenthal and Keret seem to have chosen the easy way out by not taking the trouble to develop any of the ideas beyond the basic anecdote.

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Eddie Cockrell Variety Dec 16, 2009

A deliberately coarse character style that's more Gumby than Gromit.

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Tom Long Detroit News Dec 11, 2009 B+

A small gem of an animated film, $9.99 manages to be rich in whimsy and fantastical turns while still rooted in human ground.

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Jason Di Rosso MovieTime, ABC Radio National Sep 17, 2009

The film is more than picturesque whimsy, though: at times it reaches for some really quite weird imagery - and some raw honesty.

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Philippa Hawker The Age (Australia) Sep 17, 2009 3/5

Set in a grim, grimy, often bleak world, a hybrid, densely detailed environment of interwoven stories and chance encounters, with occasional flights of fantasy and rare glimmers of hope.

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Sep 16, 2009 3/5

The whole never quite comes together, in fact -- but even without that unity, the film has an oddball charm and intelligence.

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Des Partridge Courier Mail (Australia) Sep 16, 2009 3.5/5

Think Robert Altman's Short Cuts with clay characters as engaging as human actors, and you might get a sense of what you'll experience.

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Annette Basile FILMINK (Australia) Sep 15, 2009

Not for all tastes due to its arthouse nature, this animation transcends into beautiful magical realism with a spectacular Australian voice cast.

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Ed Gibbs Empire Magazine Australasia Sep 13, 2009 3/5

Playful, light-hearted and fun, with an impressive cast of Aussie stars and some fine stop-motion animation. As it stands, at 74 minutes, it's not quite as smart (or rewarding) as one would hope.

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Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile Sep 10, 2009

The Jewish melancholy and downbeat humour that oozes from the original writing is overlaid with an Australian idiom, thanks ironically to the great cast, in a transplant that doesn't really take

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Louise Keller Urban Cinefile Sep 10, 2009

It's a challenging film with plenty of merit as a handful of unrelated stories criss-cross and involve us in a mountainous thought provoking journey in which we ponder the meaning of happiness

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David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) Sep 9, 2009 3.5/5

The creation of this world is amazingly detailed; it's magic, really. But maybe the film doesn't quite reach the heights of everyman experience to which it aspires.

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Sonny Bunch Washington Times Aug 30, 2009 3/4

$9.99 is consistently amusing but rarely laugh-out-loud funny.

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Austin Kennedy Sin Magazine Aug 16, 2009 2.5/4

I'm kind of getting tired of these "grown up" cartoons like WALTZ WITH BASHIR and PERSEPOLIS. To me, they kind of seem more focused on the gimmicks than the actual story.

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Cary Darling Dallas Morning News Aug 7, 2009 4.5/5

It has been a good year for animation that pushes thematic and visual boundaries.

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Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch Aug 6, 2009 3/4

$9.99 may not be entirely successful from a dramatic perspective, and it certainly offers little enlightenment about the meaning of life. But the film is so intriguing in other ways that it's definitely worth a look.

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Stan Hall Oregonian Jul 31, 2009

The story, though, rarely engrosses as it poses the old 'meaning of life' query, then dances around the subject.

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