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The Ninth Gate
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3805
- IMDb #2819
- Google retired #2802
- Rotten Tomatoes #3651
- Metacritic #3535
- Letterboxd #3607
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4108
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3488
- Metacritic Critics #3960
- Metacritic Audience #2502
- Criticker #2244
- Douban #1358
- Kinopoisk #1544
- AlloCiné #3337
- Trakt #3462
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 43, highest is Google on 78. Critics average 44, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A rare book dealer is hired by a wealthy collector to authenticate a ancient text rumored to have been co-written by the Devil himself and capable of summoning him. The book dealer must travel across Europe to compare the client's copy against the two other known surviving copies, but he discovers that anyone connected to the books is meeting gruesome ends. He is drawn into a dangerous world of occult societies and murder, pursued by a mysterious woman who seems to have supernatural knowledge of his quest.
Details
- Director
- Roman Polanski
- Writers
- Enrique Urbizu, John Brownjohn, Roman Polanski
- Based on
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Studio
- R.P. Productions, Orly Films, Bac Films, Kino Visión
- Released
- 25 August 1999
- Country
- Spain, France
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $38.0M
- Box office
- $58.4M
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