Such a figure demands serious treatment (think what Kieslowski might’ve done with it), not the artsy audience-tweaking schlock this fundamentally is.

| Original Score: D | Sep 17, 2022

Not a pretty picture, but you won't be able to take your eyes off it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2020

While honoring the suspense-building engine of a thriller, One Hour Photo creates a nightmare portrait of American life.

| Feb 3, 2020

Robin Williams makes this movie what it is with his uncomfortably fearless portrayal of the wimpish Sy the Photo Guy, giving us the creepiest, most spine tingling, heebie-jeebie making film of the year.

| Nov 7, 2019

One Hour Photo is a very well-made thriller. It shows us Robin Williams extending his acting range into unusual and disturbing material. And as well as causing acute anxiety in its last reels, it delivers a more moral message than most of its kind.

| Dec 14, 2017

A film that over the years I've come to appreciate far more than my initial viewing due to the brilliant, unforgettable effort by Robin Williams who gives one of his most haunting performances.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 13, 2014

Without Robin Williams, 'One Hour Photo' is just another predictable B movie thriller. He's like that slow train wreck, personified, that people can't seem to take their eyes off.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 10, 2013

Robin Williams gets a chance to stretch as an actor in this semi-effective thriller.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 17, 2011

Intensely scary thriller; not for every teen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2010

this film shows that Williams can slither into the blacks and grays of the psyche

| Original Score: C+ | May 13, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2009

Call it an exercise in threat management, free with the purchase of a photo album--or a movie ticket.

| Aug 24, 2009

This is a brilliant, incredibly directed film with excellent performances all around from Nielsen, and Williams who deserves an Oscar nod.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2009

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 | Mar 27, 2009

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.

| Oct 18, 2008

Robin Williams creates a character who earns our revulsion--and somehow also our sympathy.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 5, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

A character study masquerading as a chilling psychological thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 6, 2006

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.

| Jan 26, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005