The Ninth Gate

"Fun, but a pale shadow of Rosemary's Baby."

"An exasperatingly boring film."

"About as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of The Blair Witch Project."

"Something vapid this way comes."

"A strong first act and an appealing Depp performance mask a myriad of flaws."

"A film not even a star as foxed and foxy as Johnny Depp himself could save."

"Opens with a spectacularly good title sequence and goes downhill from there."

"Salutes and spoofs satanic thrillers."

"The script is so bereft of real surprises that it's best to keep the lid on what few there are."

"Polanski revisits Satan with less than devilish fun."

"Deadly–one might even say infernally–dull."