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One Hour Photo (2002)
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Reviews Counted:190
Fresh:155
Rotten:35
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Robin Williams is every effective in this creepy thriller.
Theatrical Release:Aug 21, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $31,469,714
Synopsis: Viewed through our photographs, it would seem we have lived a joyous, leisurely existence. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams), who makes this observation, adversely leads a lonely life, operating a photo... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole
Director: Mark Romanek
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Reviews for One Hour Photo
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Call it an exercise in threat management, free with the purchase of a photo album--or a movie ticket. Full Review |
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3/4 |
This is a brilliant, incredibly directed film with excellent performances all around from Nielsen, and Williams who deserves an Oscar nod. Full Review |
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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... Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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A- |
Robin Williams creates a character who earns our revulsion--and somehow also our sympathy. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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B- |
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 Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
This is not the Robin Williams you are used to seeing. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
What brings the film to a level beyond is Williams's superb performance and, in turn, Romanek's carefully calibrated direction. Full Review |
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B |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
This isn't the Williams of Mrs. Doubtfire or, thank heavens, Jack or What Dreams May Come. Full Review |
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Robin Williams has mastered the essence of the overlooked man. Quite simply, it is a fantastic move for his career. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Williams is at his very best ... Full Review |
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3/4 |
This is the best and boldest performance of Williams' career. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It's the mark of a good thriller when we never know quite when to relax. This movie has several witty and visually adept sequences which caught me completely off guard, and has me still thinking about them. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Mark Romanek's film is both intriguing and unsettling, inviting the viewer to become a voyeur, like Sy, inspecting the minutae of the lives of others. Full Review |
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CommentLatest News for One Hour Photo
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