One

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

If 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.

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

Barbieri 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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

This restrained drama of lifelong friends drifting in separate directions is a quietly rich and resonant portrait of disconnection.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Once in a while, a little reality can be a welcome antidote to our increasingly outsized film fantasies.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

A spare, internally emotional movie like One requires something called screen presence. Its two leads have it.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Visceral and strong.

Film.com Henry Cabot Beck

A very ambitious film that goes places few films have dared.

Film.com John Hartl

A movie that keeps you wondering about its characters' true feelings and motives long after you've left the theater.

TV Guide Ken Fox

A moody, beautifully acted character piece.

Village Voice Amy Taubin

Even 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.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Too much of a study in formalism to register deeply on an emotional level.

Austin Chronicle Russell Smith

All 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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan

A worthy subject is poorly executed.

Baltimore Sun Mary Carole McCauley

Has the fingerprints of earnest, first-time filmmakers all over it.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

The 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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A rare dud in the Shooting Gallery series.