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Fresh: 155 | Rotten: 37
Robin Williams is very effective in this creepy, well-shot thriller.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 7
Robin Williams is very effective in this creepy, well-shot thriller.
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Funnyman Robin Williams steps out of character in this tense, low-key thriller that marked the feature-film directorial debut of music video veteran Mark Romanek. Semour "Sy" Parrish (Williams) runs the photo processing department at a large discount store; Sy is dedicated to his job, and takes great pride in his work. Sy's favorite customers are Nina and Will Yorkin (Connie Nielsen and Michael Vartan), an attractive and cheerful young couple with a nine-year-old boy, Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy
Aug 21, 2002 Wide
Feb 18, 2003
$31.5M
Fox Searchlight
All Critics (193) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (157) | Rotten (38) | DVD (30)
This immaculately made first feature from noted musicvid and commercials director Mark Romanek provides Robin Williams with one of his creepiest, atypical roles, and the comic star responds with an unusually restrained performance...
Sy's scary ordinariness is a species of acting stunt. There's no there there.
Not entirely satisfying as either a creepfest or a character study.
Romanek's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals. Beyond the cleverness, the weirdness and the pristine camerawork, One Hour Photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures.
Ranks among Willams' best screen work.
Williams's exacting performance -- not a note of it is unconsidered -- makes us feel more for Sy than we'd like to.
Robin Williams gets a chance to stretch as an actor in this semi-effective thriller.
Intensely scary thriller; not for every teen.
this film shows that Williams can slither into the blacks and grays of the psyche
Call it an exercise in threat management, free with the purchase of a photo album--or a movie ticket.
This is a brilliant, incredibly directed film with excellent performances all around from Nielsen, and Williams who deserves an Oscar nod.
In a story so reliant on detail as the engine for character action, it's frustrating and annoying to see the film spiral down the gurgler because of a few (but crucial) lapses of attention to detail.
Robin Williams creates a character who earns our revulsion--and somehow also our sympathy.
Sy is a complete character with a physicality, inner monologue and motivation that we haven't seen from Mr. Williams in a long time. And it's a pleasure to watch.
Robin Williams' good work in contained in an uneven film, whose first half is an intriguing chronicle of urban alienation, but second part deteriorates into a presposterous thriller with a subplot of stalking and revenge--not unlike Fatal Attraction
It has arresting things to say about how the family photo is used less to record than to project, and how far that projection can be from the truth.
This story begs for a harder focus, the kind of thing Stanley Kubrick was always good at, at least until he got a little too focused. What saves the film is Robin Williams in a very atypical role.
This is not the Robin Williams you are used to seeing.
What brings the film to a level beyond is Williams's superb performance and, in turn, Romanek's carefully calibrated direction.
A music video is like espresso: a lot of visual power compressed into five minutes. A movie needs to know something of the rhythms of everyday life, or else the audience get dizzy and exhausted.
This isn't the Williams of Mrs. Doubtfire or, thank heavens, Jack or What Dreams May Come.
Robin Williams has mastered the essence of the overlooked man. Quite simply, it is a fantastic move for his career.
Williams is at his very best ...
Robin williams performs a role that should've deserved more praise. The story is meticulous about an overlooked art and gives us insight into the mind of a troubled man. Romanek's directing helped carry this thriller creepy all throughout the film until the last frame.
October 25, 2011
Super Reviewer
With arguably Robin Williams' best performance at the film's core, Mark Romanek's psychological thriller is creepy, riveting and intense throughout. It is also a very fascinating character study, as Williams' Sy is so complex and enters a land of madness by the film's conclusion. ''One Hour Photo'' is very underrated
September 19, 2011Super Reviewer
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