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90If you care about the best kind of independent filmmaking, if you want the option of experiencing artistic films when you go to the movies, missing out on One is not an option. When a film like this appears, attention should be paid.
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80Barbieri is a natural filmmaker, with an eye for film space and a gift for pacing. Both of his leads are wonderful, but it's Picoy who will break your heart.
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75Once in a while, a little reality can be a welcome antidote to our increasingly outsized film fantasies.
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75Visceral and strong.
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75A spare, internally emotional movie like One requires something called screen presence. Its two leads have it.
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75This restrained drama of lifelong friends drifting in separate directions is a quietly rich and resonant portrait of disconnection.
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70A moody, beautifully acted character piece.
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70Even more than the subtlety of the writing and acting, it's this sophisticated and emotionally potent visual strategy that suggests Barbieri's promise as a filmmaker and lifts One above the low-budget indie heap.
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70A very ambitious film that goes places few films have dared.
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70A movie that keeps you wondering about its characters' true feelings and motives long after you've left the theater.
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60Too much of a study in formalism to register deeply on an emotional level.
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50A worthy subject is poorly executed.
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Has the fingerprints of earnest, first-time filmmakers all over it.
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50All in all, this is perhaps one of those films you applaud more for design than execution while hoping at the same time that its boundary-testing restlessness becomes more widely influential.
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30The film's spareness and lack of words seem affected and ultimately unrealistic. At such moments, its refusal to put things into words and its crushing sense of gloom turn self-defeating.
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25A rare dud in the Shooting Gallery series.