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35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickWilliams triumphs by exceeding both in sheer actor's craft - and the depths he plumbs in his character's tortured soul.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumIn One Hour Photo, Williams is a snapshot of human complexity worth framing.
- 80VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyThis 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 that is, in the end, quite moving.
- 75USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigIt is a rare performance when one of the world's most recognizable stars can disappear completely into a character on the screen.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonOne Hour Photo is a piece of often masterly image-making, a half-brilliant film with a revelatory lead performance by Williams. But it's also a thriller that gets trapped in surfaces: shiny, exciting, full of dread but often only tricks of the camera.
- 60Film ThreatRon WellsFilm ThreatRon WellsIf this is the direction Williams is headed in his career, fantastic. For auteur Romanek, it was at least a good first try.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumWatchable if relatively threadbare movie.
- 50The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasHas 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.
- 50Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezIt'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.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerWilliams 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.