Les Miserables: Critic Reviews

84%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

76%

RottenTomatoes: 40 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 14 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

100

With a first-rate cast and a venerable storytelling style, it fluently condenses Victor Hugo's epic novel and retrieves some of its suspenseful momentum.
Full Review » 12 years ago
USA Today (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 12 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

It contains the moments of high drama, clearly outlines all the motivations, is easy to follow and lacks only passion. A story filled with outrage and idealism becomes somehow merely picturesque.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

Full Review » 12 years ago
Emanuel Levy Variety (Top Critic)

Without a doubt the most emotionally powerful and handsomely mounted production of the story yet.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

Full Review » 10 years ago
Charles Taylor Salon.com (Top Critic)

The movie's whole virtuous conception of Jean Valjean sticks in my craw. He's haunted and hunted, but he reeks of a reasoned, noble superiority that's a pretty sterile quality in the hero of an epic.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

Towering over the entire film is Liam Neeson, the Irish actor who seems at home in any kind of picture, whether it transpires in contemporary America, World War II Germany, or centuries-ago Scotland.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Luisa F. Ribeiro Boxoffice Magazine

60

[An] attractive, solid rendering of this popular classic.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily

88

A beautiful testament to the strength of the human spirit. This version of Les Miserables is a triumph for everyone involved.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

67

The new version is a traditional telling of the story, and there is nothing wrong with tradition.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Eugene Novikov Film Blather

17

Somewhere, Victor Hugo must be rolling in his grave.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

90

With a group like this, and with Hugo's literature, who could lose?
Full Review » 9 years ago
Film Threat

60

Full Review » 9 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

75

Victor Hugo's great novel Les Miserables has been translated to screen at least five times before. Leave it to Liam Neeson to make a sixth seem indispensable.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

70

Full Review » 10 years ago
Gary Susman Boston Phoenix

August's film won't make you forget the musical or the many previous movie versions, but an entertaining, stirring version of Hugo's tale of social justice is always welcome.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

Illustrates the redemptive power of forgiveness and the destructive consequences of self-hate.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

63

August never manages to build any real momentum or urgency to pull the story along -- it's more like he wades through it, moving from one set-piece to the next with deliberate care.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope

60

It's not that this is a bad film, after all it does have fine actors and it is based on a great story. It just doesn't live up to its predecessors.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Rob Blackwelder SPLICEDWire

75

Handsome and broad, with luminous performances from a pedigree cast, it's a bit surprising Columbia Pictures didn't hold on to it until a more Oscar-friendly time of year.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Harvey S. Karten Compuserve

70

Neeson is ... able to overcome the weakness of the script by his powerful presence, though the tremendous love he feels for Cosette does not really come across.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Widgett Walls Needcoffee.com

70

Rush's performance alone makes it worthwhile viewing.
Full Review » 12 years ago