Les Misérables Reviews
Film Racket
standing as it does, nearly alone, one could certainly do worse than Hooper's brave and smart addition to the pantheon.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Badass Digest
Any heart, any familiarity in LES MISERABLES is due solely to the actors, and remains in spite of Hooper's best efforts.
Movies With Butter
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.
Movies.com
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
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
eFilmCritic.com
As Fantine, musical theater's favorite emo chick, Hathaway blows away whatever else is supposed to be going on.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Concrete Playground
A guaranteed musical tear-jerker about a jerk who becomes a teary hero.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Cinema Crazed
Riveting and incredibly entertaining...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Deadspin
Beyond some pacing problems and a few questionable casting choices, the movie works as a towering, somewhat lumbering monolith of entertainment disbursement.
KC Active
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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.'
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Cinema em Cena
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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?
Movie Talk
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.
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.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Birmingham Mail
Les Misérables has enough genuinely emotive power in its tank to guarantee a lot of people enormous pleasure.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Scotsman
Bombastic, overblown, overlong, needlessly convoluted and full of simplistic characters, some terrible performances and a constant, cochlea-cracking racket on the soundtrack ...
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Ooh Tray
This is a Sing-A-Long Review. Press play on the backing track to "I dreamed a dream" before reading.
This is London
It made me bad-tempered for two days, a personal record.
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| Original Score: 3/5
