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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Bent Hamer has proved himself an apt pupil of such deadpan comic filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki. Read more
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John Hartl, Seattle Times: Thanks to the consistent deadpan tone that Hamer and Owe establish, it's oddly satisfying. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: Hamer creates a quirky, beguiling, and very funny mood piece that reflects on age, adventure, uncertainty, and humanity. Owe gives the character of Horten an off-center dignity that will suggest comparisons to Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Powered by lush cinematography, a moody score, and Owe's subtly majestic lead performance, O'Horten oscillates confidently between the mundane and the rapturously beautiful. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: O'Horten is a precise, deadpan drama of slapstick existentialism -- a Bent Hamer movie, in other words. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Nothing about this film even hints at being rushed -- if there were a cinematic equivalent to the Slow Food movement, this would fit right in -- but that doesn't stop it from being all that you want it to be. Read more
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Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The whimsy is never overplayed. The peculiar isn't teased at any character's expense. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Pointedly strange and whimsical, O'Horten mixes the surreal with the mundane in its depiction of the retirement and eventual rebirth of a train engineer. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Jack Nicholson's dyspeptic retiree in About Schmidt would no doubt identify with O'Horten's entertaining pain. Read more
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Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A veteran actor of half-a-century's standing (and several Lars von Trier projects), his wry, detached decency is a large part of the film's charm as he greets his new life's surprises with calm, slightly puzzled good humor. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: A quiet, oddly serene movie with a curious soul. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A small masterpiece of poignant deadpan humor. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's a film whose pleasures come slowly, as we, like the title character, discover the joys he's missed. Best of all, we, like Odd the Norwegian bachelor, figure out it is never too late to start living. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Not quite the absurdist gem that was Bent Hamer's 2004 release, Kitchen Stories, the Norwegian director's O'Horten is nonetheless a deadpan delight. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The thing about a deadpan comedy is, it must involve us in the lives of its characters, so we can understand why they are funny while at the same time so distant. O'Horten, a bittersweet whimsy by the Norwegian director Bent Hamer, finds that effortless. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Strangeness, humor and melancholy of aging are deftly explored. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This yarn about a train conductor whose life goes off track is Nordic to its bones: efficient, humane and droll in small measures. Read more
J. P. Mangalindan, Globe and Mail: Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Filmmaker Hamer isn't being cruel here. He's trying to tell us that conquering the ridiculous is one of life's necessary joys. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: [Director] Hamer has a gift for observational comedy, previously demonstrated in the droll Kitchen Stories, and also for the exquisite framing of wintry images. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: The movie, on its own modest terms, satisfies greatly. Read more
Dan Zak, Washington Post: Depending on your patience for oddball mood pieces, you will either sleep through O' Horten or be oddly captivated. Either way, it'll be like dreaming. Read more