When Photo zooms in on the spectacular Williams, we’re riveted. The rest is underdeveloped.
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09/10/02
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
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
Reviews for One Hour Photo
[Williams] has the courage to play up Sy's basic humanity, finding sympathy in a hopelessly pathetic psychotic.
09/09/02
Exposing the ways we fool ourselves is One Hour Photo's real strength.
09/09/02
A suspense film that attempts to make some statement about middle America, without ever really visiting.
09/09/02
One Hour Photo is a meticulously crafted flourescent nightmare [featuring] Robin Williams in one of the strongest performances of his checkered career.
09/09/02
'... Despite lagging near the finish line, the movie runs a good race, one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches.'
09/08/02
It never quite escapes the stereotypes, but it also never contents itself with business as usual.
09/06/02
The glossy One Hour Photo focuses our attentions on Robin Williams's sad and strikingly subdued performance as a photo finisher who snaps.
09/03/02
It's Robin Williams' devastating performance that distinguishes this chilling psychological character study.
09/03/02
I will not be able to do justice to the visceral pull of this film but please read review.
09/02/02
One of the most stunning and subtly creepy films released this decade.
09/02/02
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09/02/02
It's a tightly organized film, and you can see why it was a hit at Sundance. In fact, it may be the ultimate "Sundance" movie.
09/01/02
If in this generally lousy genre Seven rates as opera, then One Hour Photo must rank somewhere between elevator music and white noise.
09/01/02
I don't think anybody dropping off their family photos to be developed will feel the same after seeing this film.
09/01/02
You own a digital camera yet? You will when I get done with this review.
09/01/02
Despite the weakness of the pedestrian storyline, the film rewards the audience with Williams' nuanced creepy transmutation and some well integrated set designs
08/31/02
A nightmarish portrait of the American Dream gone awry...digs deeply and touchingly into the psyche of a deranged human being who has nowhere to turn in life.
08/31/02
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.
08/31/02
Ranks among Willams' best screen work.
08/31/02
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