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Les Misérables (2012)

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Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 224
Fresh: 156 | Rotten: 68

Impeccably mounted but occasionally bombastic, Les Misérables largely succeeds thanks to bravura performances from its distinguished cast.

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 17

Impeccably mounted but occasionally bombastic, Les Misérables largely succeeds thanks to bravura performances from its distinguished cast.

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Average Rating: 4.1/5
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Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption-a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Jackman plays ex-prisoner Jean Valjean, hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's (Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever. In December 2012, the world's

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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 Source: Time Out
Time Out
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Hooper's 'Les Misérables': Bloated anti-musical

January 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer
Passionate Moviegoer
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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 Source: New Yorker
New Yorker
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... 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 Source: MSN Movies
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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 Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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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 Source: Slate
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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 Source: Eclipse Magazine
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 Source: Film Racket
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 Source: Movie Dearest
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 Source: 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 Source: COEDMagazine.com
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 Source: 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 Source: Movies.com
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 Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

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

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Concrete Playground
Concrete Playground

Imperfect, but stirring

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Movie Habit

Riveting and incredibly entertaining...

February 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
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 Source: Deadspin
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 Source: KC Active
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 Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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 Source: Cinema em Cena
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 Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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 Source: Movie Talk
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 Source: UTV

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

January 13, 2013 Full Review Source: Birmingham Mail
Birmingham Mail

Bombastic, overblown, overlong, needlessly convoluted and full of simplistic characters, some terrible performances and a constant, cochlea-cracking racket on the soundtrack ...

January 13, 2013 Full Review Source: Scotsman

Audience Reviews for Les Misérables

When I rented the Les Miserables DVD, I thought that was the title of the movie. Turns out it was a description of the audience. I want to be entertained when I see a movie. I don't mean it has to be funny. I mean I want it to be engrossing. I want to feel like I've been absorbed into the film. Like time has stood still, place evaporates, and space has collapsed into the movie and me. Chinatown comes to mind. Another one is Casablanca. And The Sting is a classic example. For me, Russell Crowe is the star of the show. A great singing villain. He is the only one, for me, whose singing almost mirrored a stream of consciousness -- not just singing, but thinking his singing, if that makes sense.
May 4, 2013
binky013

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I'll admit being highly skeptical about the superb musical masterpiece being adapted onto the screen. However, I felt that it'll be interesting to see how loyal they keep the film to the show. Even after leaving the cinema, I kept on debating whether I enjoyed it or not. While I really many aspects of the film, it was the choice of actors/actresses that got to me. For me, Hugh Jackman's performance of Jean Valjean really stood out for me, I was constantly gripped with every scene, from his moments of anger and despair, to his highlights of singing. I felt even though Russell Crowe wasn't the best choice for the notorious Javert, to me, he eventually picks himself up with later songs. The biggest hit and miss I found for this film was Anne Hathaway. I had read up that she was the big highlight of the film. Even though I didn't see what made her performance stand out, it didn't stop Hathaway from presenting a relatively strong character for Fantine. Even though 'Les Miserables' may have a dragging length to it, I'm glad it did its best in keeping to the original musical.
It may not be the film for you, however, on the minimum, to me, the it's worth watching for Jackman's powerful yet possibly Oscar worthy portrayal.
February 6, 2013
Samuel Riley
Samuel Riley

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    1. Enjolras: Let others rise to take our place, until the earth is free!
    – Submitted by Typhon Q (18 days ago)
    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?
    – Submitted by Typhon Q (18 days ago)
    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.
    – Submitted by Jenna L (40 days ago)
    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 (40 days ago)
    1. Cosette: What's the matter with you Cosette? Have you been too much on your own?
    – Submitted by Jenna L (40 days ago)
    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 (41 days ago)

Discussion Forum

Topic Last Post Replies
BORINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG ! 11 days ago 39
Am I the only one who hated this? 14 days ago 188
Russell Crowe 17 days ago 168
3 hours of pain 17 days ago 10
An Incomplete History of Les Miserables 47 days ago 0

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