On film, Hamilton feels every bit as fresh, invigorating, intoxicating, and revolutionary as it did when it premiered five years ago.

| Original Score: A | Jan 26, 2021

In a single song, Renee Elise Goldsberry shows off a range between Monica's vocals and Lauryn Hill's rhyme skills. Goldsberry drops the most exhilarating performance I've seen all year.

| Dec 8, 2020

The dramatic themes here are big and eternal, and the way history played them out gives them a powerful thump.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 22, 2020

Believe the hype. Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical about the life of American founding father Alexander Hamilton is a huge achievement, and a hugely entertaining piece of work.

| Jul 16, 2020

The time-capsule quality of Hamilton can serve as a bracing throwback, both for new viewers and returning fans.

| Jul 11, 2020

Even better than the best seat in the house.

| Jul 9, 2020

It does sometimes lose energy, but when it is good -- it is very good.

| Jul 9, 2020

Miranda - the son of Puerto Rican immigrants - has smuggled radical theatre into our homes. The job's been done, to perfection.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 5, 2020

For fans who have never had a chance to see the show, it's a dream come true. For the uninitiated, it remains the cultural event of a troubled season.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2020

Seeing it at home is not the same as in a theater but the Disney+ presentation nicely approximates the live experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 3, 2020

I wonder if the revolutionary undertones of Hamilton will sing in a new way for those who watch it at home now.

| Jul 2, 2020

It feels like such a gift.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2020

Hamilton met all of my hopes and expectations. Just what a unique powerful and very high-energy way of telling this story.

| Jul 2, 2020

A no-frills taping of the musical, with the benefit of a few camera angles and the power to zoom in on the actors' faces. Amazingly, this is enough - more than enough - to bring the studio album to life.

| Jul 2, 2020

If history classes were this entertaining, there would be lines around the block to get in.

| Jul 2, 2020

It's said that live theater is like catching lightning in a bottle in that every night is different and can never be repeated. It's nice to have a bit of that lightning at your disposal courtesy of this movie.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 2, 2020

It would have been nice to see a movie version of that material that was as unique as the material itself.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 2, 2020

What more can really be said about "Hamilton"? It's one of the greatest achievements of history-telling and history-making art of our recent era.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 2, 2020

This "live capture" version of Lin Manuel Miranda's Broadway rap opera about our ten-dollar Founding Father is the streaming event of the year, an indisputable classic that comes just in time to cure our pandemic blues.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 1, 2020

How does it play? With the same verbal and musical fireworks as the stage version, and with the same emotional kick, which is rooted in the casting.

| Jul 1, 2020