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

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

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

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

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

It contains the moments of high drama, clearly outlines all the motivations, is easy to follow and lacks only passion. A story filled with outrage and idealism becomes somehow merely picturesque.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Condensing a massive tome like Les Misrables into a cohesive 129-minute film is a labor of love in any case, and August succeeds with remarkable, powerful results.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It never sinks, but it never really soars either, though here and there it hits a powerful moment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The movie's whole virtuous conception of Jean Valjean sticks in my craw. He's haunted and hunted, but he reeks of a reasoned, noble superiority that's a pretty sterile quality in the hero of an epic.

| Jan 1, 2000

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

With a first-rate cast and a venerable storytelling style, it fluently condenses Victor Hugo's epic novel and retrieves some of its suspenseful momentum.

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

| Original Score: C+ | May 1, 1998