It's just so soaringly monotonous... And although hard-core fans will love this whatever, and good luck to them, I'd rather set fire to my own hair than ever have to sit through it again. It would be over quicker, at least.

| Sep 4, 2018

While it isn't a consummate movie, Les Misérables will stir a younger generation of fans with its glitz and charm and perhaps pioneer a new style of movie musicals.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2017

Hugh Jackman delivers a muscular, earnest performance that holds together this diverse ensemble cast - which includes predictable but welcome comic relief from Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter - for the full 158min.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Ultimately the film's choppy, camera-goes-anywhere approach works well in translating a play that was never all that interested in the movement of bodies anyway-only their martyrdom.

| Nov 5, 2013

Beyond some pacing problems and a few questionable casting choices, the movie works as a towering, somewhat lumbering monolith of entertainment disbursement.

| Feb 12, 2013

It made me bad-tempered for two days, a personal record.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2013

Those who get on with tunes will barely notice the hours flying past. Of course, if you hate the show, you'll hate the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2013

Like being trapped in Disney jail with the kids from Fame. For five consecutive life sentences.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 10, 2013

This is a movie about suffering with no jagged edges.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 10, 2013

At the end of 158 minutes, you really have experienced something. What exactly, I'm still not sure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2013

Tom Hooper gets a bit carried away with swoopy shots, and the close-ups are unrelenting, but crucially he lets the filth and the squalor in.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2013

Rings with all the emotion and power of the source and provides a new model for the movie musical.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2013

Fans of the original production, no doubt, will eat the movie up, and good luck to them. I screamed a scream as time went by.

| Jan 4, 2013

When Les Misérables is good, it is very, very good, and when it is bad, it's usually because Russell Crowe has opened his mouth.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 4, 2013

... Jackman, who should get a Nobel Prize for the way he carries pretty much the whole undertaking on his shoulders, so protean and virile is his singing and acting throughout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2013

At the heart of the "Les Misérables" movie was a good idea that just didn't work out this time. The idea was that the actors should sing their songs live on camera.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 28, 2012

We're all familiar with the experience of seeing movies that cram ideas and themes down our throats. Les Misérables may represent the first movie to do so while also cramming us down the throats of its actors.

Full Review | Dec 27, 2012

having the actors sing their parts while they were filming...gives the music a welcome organic quality and immediacy.

| Original Score: B | Dec 27, 2012

There are some moving scenes, and some of the songs are well realized. I was particularly impressed with Eddie Redmayne, whose acting and singing ... is, for me, the highlight of the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.1/2 | Dec 26, 2012

Committed fans of the musical are likely to have their affections reaffirmed. The less devout, however, may conclude that in this case more is less, and fidelity not always a virtue.

| Dec 25, 2012