Les Misérables Reviews
Badass Digest
Any heart, any familiarity in LES MISERABLES is due solely to the actors, and remains in spite of Hooper's best efforts.
Daily Star
By the time Amanda Sieyfried and Eddie Redmayne were warbling a love song at each other within seconds of meeting, I was ready to give in to my bladder.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flix Capacitor
The actors singing live on set gives the performances a raw authenticity, but the substantial running time is punishing.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
CraveOnline
A musical with overwhelming theatricality trusted to a cast at best sporadically capable of performing their parts on the multiple levels necessary to actually do their jobs right.
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| Original Score: 4/10
The Popcorn Junkie
Breaks a record for climbing to the apex of movie musicals. Unfortunately, it's done within the first hour of proceedings and the slide back to the bottom is a laborious walk through the famous stage musical's song book.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
One would be hard-pressed to describe this, despite the wealth of beauty on display, as anything but an ugly film, shot and cut ineptly.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Moviedex
Overstuffed, dreary and dripping with sickening sentimentality, what starts promisingly soon becomes a two-and-a-half hour struggle to stay awake.
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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.
Scotsman
It could have worked if Hooper had taken a bold strimmer to the structure. Instead, this Les Mis feels as dogmatic as Javert, and as cheesy as old brie.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is London
It made me bad-tempered for two days, a personal record.
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| Original Score: 3/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
Les Misérables? More like Meh Misery-blah-blah.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticDirector Tom Hooper piles one terrible decision upon another, with the result being a movie so overbearingly maudlin and distorted that it's one of 2012's most excruciating film experiences.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway provide some winning musical moments, but overall Tom Hooper's film version is lumbering and drab.
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| Original Score: C+
OK! Magazine
While there's some value in making a slavish adaptation of a near-universally beloved stage musical, sticking to all the trappings of the play is a sure path to making the film feel like a translation rather than a similarly inspired production.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The Movie Minute
I feel like one of those reality show judges, sadly grimacing as I deliver the news. Audience boos me. How could I not like this? After all, everybody's TRYING SO HARD!!!!
Movieline
After Hathaway's early high point, it starts to feel numbing ...
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| Original Score: 6/10
tonymacklin.net
Les Misérables is as sodden as a tear-filled hankie. Director Hooper gets bogged down by the bulk of his movie.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
Celebuzz
a maudlin act of white-noise desperation, underscored by director Tom Hooper's inability to discern the difference between quiet and loud - not just musically, but as a storyteller and dramatist.
Knight at the Movies
Ironically, the grandly scaled Les Miserables may be the first epic-sized musical that leaves one feeling claustrophobic.
