127 Hours Reviews

You can know how this misdaventure came out and still be moved by this mystical/moving and miraculous film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

127 Hours is an inspiring dramatic thriller with creative direction by Danny Boyle and a commanding performance from James Franco.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

127 Hours asks a big question of its audience: could you do what Aron Ralston does when it came down to it?

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

It's chilling, claustrophobic, even nerve-racking, but it's also one of the most fascinating films of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Boyle solves the problem of shooting a film in a single location

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Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

... Essentially Franco in a one-man show, and his charm and enthusiasm instantly win us over.

Full Review | Original Score: A

For a movie about a man falling into a canyon crack, there's much to think about here, not the least of which is how far any one of us would go, under similar circumstances, to survive.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Danny Boyle is hit-or-miss for me. Thankfully, this was a hit.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's an incredible performance by Franco, walking the line between what once was enthusiasm but now is manic desperation.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

You'll feel like you're clenching everything in your body as this movie builds towards its inevitable climax, but this is a masterful work...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A lot of movies about climbing ‒ Touching the Void, North Face ‒ are about men who get into trouble by pushing their luck. This one takes as its main theme the sin of hubris.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

This is an honest-to-goodness, feel-good triumphant scene -- albeit one that's disorienting and exhausting, somewhat as it must have been in real life.

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It's haunting and moving and -- if you're squeamish -- only involves major arm-cut-offing for like 60 seconds of screen time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Driven by James Franco's charisma and Danny Boyle's bizarrely antiquated, but refreshingly sharp sense of style, 127 Hours is as exciting as a film about a guy stuck to a rock could possibly be.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

...immaculate in its technical aspects, not just in the way the camera hunts down interesting images but in its pitch perfect casting and ... sound design. This is the sort of movie you admire more for its virtuosity than [its]story

Full Review | Original Score: 86/100

A tour de force for Franco, certainly, but also for Boyle, who takes something you'd think impossible to film and somehow makes a compelling story out of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Danny Boyle makes you experience the ordeal in vivid, intimate details. You feel everything from the visceral agony to the utter triumph. It's brilliant movie-making

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Una atrapante e increíble historia real de supervivencia, narrada por el director Danny Boyle con irregular imaginación y dinamismo. Se sostiene sobre todo gracias a la excelente actuación de James Franco.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A estratégia visual tumultuada, embora torne a narrativa mais dinâmica, eventualmente acaba também diluindo sua força.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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