Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate is the first film from legendary director Roman Polanski since his double-whammy in 1994, Bitter Moon and Death and the Maiden. Those two films left us believing that the exiled filmmaker may still have the right stuff. After all, this is the guy who gave us Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), and Chinatown (1974). But after a strong start, The Ninth Gate disintegrates into Pirates (1985) territory...