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

Intensely scary thriller; not for every teen.

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

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

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

Williams gives quite a performance. It's as if he's turned himself into a negative of his usual chipper self.

| Mar 7, 2003

Former video director Mark Romanek has written and directed a very entertaining, if overdesigned movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2002

Sy's scary ordinariness is a species of acting stunt. There's no there there.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2002

Robin Williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of Bicentennial Man in favour of an altogether darker side.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2002

One Hour Photo offers a very interesting snapshot of some decidedly modern pathologies -- suburban alienation and the illusions generated by the advent of the photographic image.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2002

The craftsmanship is so strenuously neat that every frame should be awarded a gold star, but there isn't a breath of spontaneous life.

| Sep 3, 2002

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 31, 2002

Williams's exacting performance -- not a note of it is unconsidered -- makes us feel more for Sy than we'd like to.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2002

It begins by scaring you to death by evoking a monster, and by the end it has seduced you into caring for him.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2002

An impressive debut ... rich with detail and cool-blue style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2002

Romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong. They cheapen the overall effect.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 30, 2002

Williams finally gets a role so smartly written we forget not only that we are watching Williams the dramatic actor, but that we are watching Williams at all.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2002

A thought-provoking, artful accomplishment by writer/director Mark Romanek, who reveals a powerfully understated vision of the haunting loneliness behind the forced cheerfulness of the discount store.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 30, 2002

Williams has now proven that he can play creepy with the best of them.

| Aug 30, 2002

There are weird resonances between actor and role here, and they're not exactly flattering.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2002

(Williams) has never slipped this far under the radar, and the result is a spooky, unsettling performance.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2002