Les Misérables (2012)

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Tom Hooper gets a bit carried away with swoopy shots, and the close-ups are unrelenting, but crucially he lets the filth and the squalor in.

January 8, 2013 Full Review

Cath Clarke

Time Out

Top Critic

Hooper's 'Les Misérables': Bloated anti-musical

January 4, 2013 Full Review

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

Fans of the original production, no doubt, will eat the movie up, and good luck to them. I screamed a scream as time went by.

January 4, 2013 Full Review

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

... Jackman, who should get a Nobel Prize for the way he carries pretty much the whole undertaking on his shoulders, so protean and virile is his singing and acting throughout.

January 2, 2013 Full Review

Glenn Kenny

MSN Movies

Top Critic

At the heart of the "Les Misérables" movie was a good idea that just didn't work out this time. The idea was that the actors should sing their songs live on camera.

December 28, 2012 Full Review

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

We're all familiar with the experience of seeing movies that cram ideas and themes down our throats. Les Misérables may represent the first movie to do so while also cramming us down the throats of its actors.

December 27, 2012 Full Review

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

This "Miz" ain't nothin' but a miss.

May 13, 2013 Full Review

Al Alexander

The Patriot Ledger

This blu-ray features a really nice transfer, full length 1 hour documentary and both a digital/ultraviolet copy of the movie.

April 21, 2013 Full Review

Michelle Alexandria

Eclipse Magazine

standing as it does, nearly alone, one could certainly do worse than Hooper's brave and smart addition to the pantheon.

April 14, 2013 Full Review

Chris Barsanti

Film Racket

Fortunately, the film's weaknesses fail to diminish the power of Victor Hugo's 150-year old saga...and the score's best songs--generally well-performed in much-ballyhooed live recordings--highlight this all the more.

April 3, 2013 Full Review

Fr. Chris Carpenter

Movie Dearest

Any heart, any familiarity in LES MISERABLES is due solely to the actors, and remains in spite of Hooper's best efforts.

April 3, 2013 Full Review

Meredith Borders

Badass Digest

The bloated musical is best used as fodder for a drinking game that lets you down a shot every time Russell Crowe sings off-key.

March 19, 2013 Full Review

Phil Villarreal

COEDMagazine.com

The [film's] conclusion might be that tragedies deserve sympathy, not judgement...and I wish I could come to this conclusion myself but I saw a film directed by Tom Hooper.

March 15, 2013 Full Review

Sara Maria Vizcarrondo

Movies With Butter

Within the first six numbers (in a musical containing 666 of them)... Fantine... has lost her job, her teeth, her hair, her prostitute-trainee badge and her life, but not before she sings the weepiest, most maddeningly catchy Susan Boyle song in the world

March 14, 2013 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

As Fantine, musical theater's favorite emo chick, Hathaway blows away whatever else is supposed to be going on.

March 13, 2013 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

A guaranteed musical tear-jerker about a jerk who becomes a teary hero.

March 3, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

Imperfect, but stirring

February 28, 2013 Full Review

Robert Denerstein

Movie Habit

Riveting and incredibly entertaining...

February 19, 2013 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Beyond some pacing problems and a few questionable casting choices, the movie works as a towering, somewhat lumbering monolith of entertainment disbursement.

February 12, 2013 Full Review

Tim Grierson

Deadspin

Director Tom Hooper ('The King's Speech'), for the most part, balances Hugo's gritty, if romantic tale, with the larger-than-life demands of an adaptation of the 1985 stage musical.

February 2, 2013 Full Review

Dan Lybarger

KC Active

A gorgeous film if not quite a classic, "Les Misérables" is a beautiful interpretation of the stage production based on the Victor Hugo novel. Not surprisingly, it's a sight to see, and it's directed by Tom Hooper, who helmed 'The King's Speech.'

February 2, 2013 Full Review

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

A esperança é que, depois de Os Miseráveis, alguém tome o megafone de Tom Hooper e o proíba de entrar em outro set de filmagem.

February 1, 2013 Full Review

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

So many close-ups, it seems better made for TV. Scene transitions are non-existent; the pace is relentless. All this over-the-top selling of emotion makes you look around before exiting-where's the gift shop, hawking more Hugo-not spinoffs and souvenirs?

January 29, 2013 Full Review

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Even if you're no fan of the show and think the lyrics doggerel and the music dreary, it's hard not to be bowled over by the barnstorming gusto shown by director Tom Hooper and his cast.

January 29, 2013 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Hugh Jackman is sensational as zero to hero Valjean. Few can sing, dance and act like him. Here, he combines all three to glorious effect. And perhaps his most underrated quality is his greatest, Jackman is just so darn likeable.

January 17, 2013 Full Review

Brian Henry Martin

UTV

Les Misérables has enough genuinely emotive power in its tank to guarantee a lot of people enormous pleasure.

January 13, 2013 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Mail

• 1. Enjolras: Let others rise to take our place, until the earth is free!
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• 1. Army Officer: You at the barricades, listen to this! The people of Paris sleep in their beds! You have no chance, no chance at all! Why throw your lives away?
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• 1. Eponine: Don't you fret, Monsieur Marius. I don't feel any pain. A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now. You're here. That's all I need to know. And you will keep me safe, and you will keep me close, and rain will make the flowers grow.
  2. Marius: But you will live, 'Ponine, dear God above. I could heal your wounds with words of love.
  3. Eponine: Just hold me now, and let it be. Shelter me, comfort me.
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• 1. Eponine: I love him, but every day I'm learning. All my life, I've only been pretending. Without me, his world will go on turning--a world that's full of happiness that I have never known.
  – Submitted by Jenna L (52 days ago)
• 1. Cosette: What's the matter with you Cosette? Have you been too much on your own?
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• 1. Bishop: May the Lord bless the food we eat today. Bless our dear sister and our honoured guest. Please, eat. Where are you travelling to my brother?
  2. Jean Valjean: Pontarlier.
  3. Bishop: Is that where your family is?
  4. Jean Valjean: No. The destination is compulsory. That is more the law sends me. I have no home.
  5. Bishop: Then let this be your home, for as long as you need it.
  – Submitted by Jean R (53 days ago)