80
The movie, on its own modest terms, satisfies greatly.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
O'Horten is about frustration, patience, kindness and the wildness that lurks in even the calmest hearts. What's odd about that?
80
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
In 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.
60
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
A quiet, oddly serene movie with a curious soul.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
This 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.
83
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Jack Nicholson's dyspeptic retiree in "About Schmidt" would no doubt identify with O'Horten's entertaining pain.
88
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Odd 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.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego
The strangeness, humor and melancholy of aging are deftly explored in this film.