Les Misérables

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    Les Misérables
    2012

    Synopsis

    An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

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    Cast

    • Hugh JackmanJean Valjean
    • Russell CroweJavert
    • Anne HathawayFantine
    • Amanda SeyfriedCosette
    • Sacha Baron CohenThénardier
    • Helena Bonham CarterMadame Thénardier
    • Eddie RedmayneMarius Pontmercy
    • Aaron TveitEnjolras
    • Samantha BarksÉponine
    • Daniel HuttlestoneGavroche

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Total Film

      Stirring and striking, Hooper's epic musical won't be wanting for awards and plaudits. Danny Cohen's cinematography is stunning and Hathaway's Oscar is guaranteed.
    • 70

      Boxoffice Magazine

      For fans, this is exactly how the story of Jean Valjean's transformation from thief to saint should be delivered: smothered in bombast.
    • 70

      Variety

      Yet for all its expected highs, the adaptation has been managed with more gusto than grace; at the end of the day, this impassioned epic too often topples beneath the weight of its own grandiosity.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      By the end, you feel like a piñata: in pieces, the victim of prolonged assault by killer pipes.
    • 60

      Movieline

      Even at a generous running time that matches this season's other giant award candidates, Les Misérables seems like it's in a hurry, skittering from one number to the next without interlude. After Hathaway's early high point, it starts to feel numbing, an unending barrage of musical emoting carrying us through Valjean's adopting of Cosette, the latter's first encounter with Marius, the battle at the barricade and a last hour that can feel like it's a non-stop series of death arias.
    • 60

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      The tasteless bombardment that is Les Misérables would, under most circumstances, send audiences screaming from the theater, but the film is going to be a monster hit and award winner, and not entirely unjustly.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      As the enduring success of this property has shown, there are large, emotionally susceptible segments of the population ready to swallow this sort of thing, but that doesn't mean it's good.
    • 50

      The Playlist

      While 'Les Mis' ends terrifically, it cannot make up for the largely uneven experience that comes before it. There is no doubt an abundance of passion and commitment in Les Miserables but when the musical isn't connecting emotionally -- which is at least half the time -- it's a lot of blustering sound and fury that could either use a dialogue break or an edit.

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