One Hour Photo Critic Reviews
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It begins by scaring you to death by evoking a monster, and by the end it has seduced you into caring for him.Read the full review
Watching the film, I thought of Michael Powell's great 1960 British thriller "Peeping Tom," which was about a photographer who killed his victims with a stiletto concealed in his camera. Sy uses a psychological stiletto, but he's the same kind of character.Read the full review
In One Hour Photo, Williams is a snapshot of human complexity worth framing.Read the full review
Williams gives a performance that is riveting in its recessiveness and, as a consequence, truly, deeply scary.Read the full review
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 that is, in the end, quite moving.Read the full review
Intense and absorbing experience.Read the full review
It is a rare performance when one of the world's most recognizable stars can disappear completely into a character on the screen.Read the full review
Williams nails it.Read the full review
Unfortunately One Hour Photo turns everyone but the central character into a cutout.Read the full review
It lacks the redeeming warmth of a character the audience can identify with. But longtime fans of Mr. Williams will enjoy it as an example of the creepiness we always knew he was capable of.Read the full review
