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One Hour Photo (2002) Rank 2 Reviews
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The Boston Phoenix
cinEncanto (Pablo del Moral)
Xi-online (Mike Peek)
Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Not entirely satisfying as either a creepfest or a character study. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
Williams once knew how to be very still and yet allow us to see the plangent human being underneath. In One Hour Photo, Sy's scary ordinariness is a species of acting stunt. There's no there there. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Romanek's movie is a bit too pat and pleased with its undeniable ambitions, but the setup resonates with quiet desperation. There's not a single vicarious glorch. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
2002 has been a busy year for Robin Williams with three films hitting theaters, and more interestingly, three films in which he plays a psycho bad guy. Williams once started out as an edgy comic, but over the years he has become known and accepted by the ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Film Threat (Ron Wells)
If this is the direction Williams is headed in his career, fantastic. For auteur Romanek, it was at least a good first try. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Film Threat (Ron Wells)
Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)
All too predictably, as if obeying some rule of genre, the director trades in his more involved ideas about alienation and voyeurism for an eruption of violence, then tags on some nonsense about marital fidelity. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Los Angeles Times (Manohla Dargis)
All Movie Guide (Josh Ralske)
One Hour Photo is a meticulously crafted flourescent nightmare [featuring] Robin Williams in one of the strongest performances of his checkered career. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at All Movie Guide (Josh Ralske)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
The gradual build-up to the final moments of this smart and deeply unsettling psychological thriller from ace music video director Mark Romanek is so good that the actual climax comes as something of a disappointment. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (Tom Grealis)
This is really all about Williams. Whatever he does next, 'One Hour Photo' will almost certainly go down as one of his finest hours. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (Tom Grealis)
Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
No one who sees this movie will ever again take it for granted that photo shop employees couldn't care less about their pictures. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
The University Daily (Texas Tech University) (James Eppler)
"Williams gives a searing performance as Sy, a man with a serious crack in the windshield of his sanity." ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at The University Daily (Texas Tech University) (James Eppler)
New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
A smart piece of direction. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Cineclub-Filmkritik
Las Vegas Weekly (Steve Bornfeld)
Moviola (Jorge G. Avila Andrade)
Objectif cinéma (Cyril Rota)
Ojectif cinéma (Florence Pommery)
Boxoffice Magazine
Boxoffice Magazine
Xi-online (Peter Oosterman)
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
It's only near the end, when Romanek sets out to release the tremendous tension he's built up, that One Hour Photo loses its bearings. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
filmcritic.com (Rachel Gordon)
Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Unfortunately, One Hour Photo lives down to its title. Thanks largely to Williams, all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Matinee Magazine (Jeremiah Kipp)
No matter how creatively saturated in color One Hour Photo is, the craft exists to play up lurid sensationalism and middle-class home invasion jitters. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Matinee Magazine (Jeremiah Kipp)
Natural Born Viewers (James Chappell)
MovieFreak.com (John Teves)
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
For all its merits, One Hour Photo winds up as just another exercise in genre, although an assured and effective one. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
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The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
Has a clean, antiseptic chilliness reminiscent of a Kubrick film. But too often, the director's stark visuals underline the naked simplicity of his story and make his picture of the suburbs seem hopelessly generic. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
The thinking part of this thriller needs work. It's not nearly as intelligent, thoughtful or penetrating as it promises to be. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Watchable if relatively threadbare movie. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
What damps down the psychological power of One Hour Photo is director Mark Romanek's reluctance to let the film become as idiosyncratically unnerving as its main character. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
There are weird resonances between actor and role here, and they're not exactly flattering. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
This could have been a modest classic, but writer Romanek turned the suspense of artful neurosis toward pulpy psychosis. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Thriller fans might remember a terrific 1987 B flick called ''The Stepfather.'' One Hour Photo is that film, directed by an art student. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
eFilmcritic.com (Jack Sommersby)
It's ultimately contrived and awfully trite. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at eFilmcritic.com (Jack Sommersby)
Slate (David Edelstein)
The film is visually worked out to within an inch of its life, but after 15 minutes you can see where it's going, and along the way there are no surprises. ...read the complete One Hour Photo movie review at Slate (David Edelstein)
Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
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