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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterEnlivened with droll wit and framed with robust sensitivity, O'Horten is an amusing and entrancing personal portrait. Succinct in its visualizations and crisp in its pacing, its deferential storytelling is in sync with its Odd subject.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOdd is played by Baard Owe, a trim, fit man with a neat mustache, who may cause you to think a little of James Stewart, Jacques Tati or Jean Rochefort.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumJack Nicholson's dyspeptic retiree in "About Schmidt" would no doubt identify with O'Horten's entertaining pain.
- 80VarietyVarietyOn screen non-stop, Owe is Buster Keaton-like perfection.
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe movie, on its own modest terms, satisfies greatly.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThis is a gentle comedy, both funny and melancholy, about a timid soul who discovers the necessity of embracing life in all its absurdity and unlooked-for joy.
- 80Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIn a literal sense this delightful film, in Norwegian with English subtitles, is about retirement and the prospect of loss. But Mr. Hamer, a poet of the droll and askew, sends the aptly named Odd--it's also a common Norwegian name--on a cockeyed journey from regret through comic confusion to a lovely eagerness for new adventures.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoThe strangeness, humor and melancholy of aging are deftly explored in this film.
- 70The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottO'Horten is about frustration, patience, kindness and the wildness that lurks in even the calmest hearts. What's odd about that?
- 60New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierA quiet, oddly serene movie with a curious soul.