Though it didn't exactly storm the box office, it's truly one of the finest family films ever made.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2025

Watch Hugo and you will see an aficionado of old films and cinema history making a movie that has a soft spot for just that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2024

Befitting such an impassioned tribute to the glories of early cinema and the creators of yesteryear wonders, it is a cinematic playground of technique and color and imagination, as well as an affectionate childhood adventure.

| Oct 6, 2023

The final act of “Hugo,” which recounts Méliès’ fall from grace and culminates with the rediscovery of his work, is some of the most heartwarming material in the entire Scorsese canon.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 31, 2023

Hugo is a work steeped in cinema lore, drunk on the fumes of a bygone era yet canny enough to channel its nostalgia through modern innovations.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2023

In its own way, more even than addressing Méliès’ history within a fictional story, Scorsese preserves film by delivering a picture that will not soon be forgotten.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 6, 2023

It’s an intelligent and earnest picture that earns our tears at the end through it’s genuine sincerity and tenderness.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

This film is the work of a genius at the top of his game that exceeds all expectations and is literally a movie for anyone with a pulse. By anyone's standards, this is quite simply one of the finest motion pictures ever made.

| Original Score: 5.5 | May 1, 2022

It might have seemed like an odd fit, but it made a certain amount of sense- even if Scorsese hadn't found a way to weave in a subplot about his favorite cause, of classic film preservation. (10th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 1, 2021

The magical celebration of cinema that is the Oscar-winning Hugo marked a substantial departure for filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

| Nov 23, 2021

Scorsese's picture is more than a clandestine bildungsroman: it's a grandly ambitious tapestry intended to entertain, but also to dramatically underscore the always-pressing need for preservation of film history.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 11, 2021

Has the ability entrance both young and old.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 2, 2021

A lengthy history lesson rather than a real adventure.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 30, 2020

'Hugo' is the master's new sublime work especially intended for lovers of the seventh art who long to light the wick of the magic wand of the cinema of the past. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 24, 2020

"Hugo" may be the film closest to the heart of Scorsese, a dedicated cinephile and film preservationist.

| Mar 26, 2020

Hugo has plenty to indulge a silent film aficionado -- or to educate a young film buff.

| Mar 23, 2020

Overall, Hugo is like a Christmas present - the wrapping is beautiful but the present itself is a disappointment.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 9, 2019

Exquisitely acted and a heretofore unequalled artistic use of 3D.

| Jul 26, 2019

Two hours of remarkable cinema that is, dare I say it, truly magical. Somehow, I think Melies would have been proud.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 8, 2019

I've not been a fan of 3-D films in general, but Hugo takes full advantage of the technology, creating a storybook-like world with rich layers and textures. That alone is enough to make Hugo worth seeing, but the film is much more.

| May 7, 2019