Rarely does the quality rise to feel particularly striking or transcendent, but to criticise that too much would be to punish the film for simply being really quite good instead of exceptional.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 23, 2021

Neeson's is an outstanding, memorable Jean Valjean who does a mighty job of anchoring this film and keeping its drama earthy and humane.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 27, 2013

I feel like saying I hate this movie. I really don't. I was just bored out of my mind by its lack of anything real.

| Dec 6, 2012

Without a doubt the most emotionally powerful and handsomely mounted production of the story yet.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

[An] attractive, solid rendering of this popular classic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

A beautiful testament to the strength of the human spirit. This version of Les Miserables is a triumph for everyone involved.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The new version is a traditional telling of the story, and there is nothing wrong with tradition.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2005

Somewhere, Victor Hugo must be rolling in his grave.

| Original Score: D | May 22, 2003

With a group like this, and with Hugo's literature, who could lose?

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Victor Hugo's great novel Les Miserables has been translated to screen at least five times before. Leave it to Liam Neeson to make a sixth seem indispensable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 18, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 24, 2002

August's film won't make you forget the musical or the many previous movie versions, but an entertaining, stirring version of Hugo's tale of social justice is always welcome.

| Mar 24, 2002

Illustrates the redemptive power of forgiveness and the destructive consequences of self-hate.

| Mar 2, 2002

August never manages to build any real momentum or urgency to pull the story along -- it's more like he wades through it, moving from one set-piece to the next with deliberate care.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 27, 2001

It's not that this is a bad film, after all it does have fine actors and it is based on a great story. It just doesn't live up to its predecessors.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A disappointing film that can be strangely cold and antiseptic, its wonderful story and its production save the day in the end. But if you don't want to see this version, you can rent one of the others or wait a few years for the next one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000