Hugo User Reviews

Hugo is a much-needed reminder of the visual power of cinema. That means it’s something more than a visually striking movie. There’s been a fair amount of those this year, what with the tinted gloom of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor, and the loving regard the camera showed to Melanie Laurent ...

I saw this a while back, but it took me a while to make up my mind on it. I have to say after reflection that it was a success. A button-pusher, yes... but I somehow felt less insulted by having my emotions yanked around like an automaton on a ...

A lot of people were loudly skeptical when they heard that Martin Scorsese would be directing a 3D family movie, but for some reason I wasn't. The main things I thought were that his films are successful because they are well crafted, not because they're violent, and he is a ...

Martin Scorcese’s violent, gritty dramas are consistent critical hits. I don’t think anyone would mind if he kept making them, and I don’t think anyone would blame him for it. This is a guy who has found what he is good at, proven it to everyone else, and has the ...

I always ramble on in my reviews about how Movie A loves the art of film (Super 8) and how Movie B stands as an all-out assault to the craft (Transformers 3). Somehow I even managed to testify how The Muppets comments on the nuances of filmmaking. This college freshman ...

Martin Scorsese is a legendary director known for his often violent, always mature films that are usually centered on crime or the dredges of society. Even when he shies away from crime to give us biographical films or period pieces, it’s safe to say that Scorsese has always made films ...

More than a great filmmaker, Martin Scorsese is a cinema lover and connoisseur, the man knows everything there is to know about movies; you can see just how big his passion is just by hearing him talk about them, so it’s only natural that we see him making a movie ...

In the 1930s, a young boy named Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives in the tunnels of a Paris train station. He comes from a family of clockmakers, including his father (Jude Law), who died in an accident. Hugo spends much of his time stealing from people in the station and avoiding ...

Hugo 2011, directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer and Christopher Lee.Hugo is a special kind of movie, a kind of movie that makes you realize how you love the movies.The basic plot follows Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) ...