Les Miserables
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 501 Ratings
- Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Sacha Baron Cohen
- Summary: A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel about a recently-released prisoner named Jean Valjean struggling to survive during the French revolution.
- Director: Tom Hooper
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance, Musical
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Positive: 24 out of 41
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Mixed: 15 out of 41
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Negative: 2 out of 41
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90This "Les Mis" does make you feel, intensely and sometimes thrillingly, by honoring the emotional core of its source material.
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80Occasionally, like its characters, ragged around the edges, this nevertheless rings with all the emotion and power of the source and provides a new model for the movie musical.
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60If you like your musicals enormous, over the top and bang-on-the-head manipulative, Les Miserables is the movie for you.
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38The camera bobs and weaves like a drunk, frantically. So you have hammering close-ups, combined with woozy insecurity each time more than two people are in the frame. Twenty minutes into the retelling of fugitive Valjean, his monomaniacal pursuer Javert, the torch singers Fantine and Eponine and the rest, I wanted somebody to just nail the damn camera to the ground.
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Positive: 153 out of 194
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Mixed: 27 out of 194
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Negative: 14 out of 194
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