
Les Miserables (2012)
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- Hugh Jackman
- Russell Crowe
- Anne Hathaway
- Amanda Seyfried
- Eddie Redmayne
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Sacha Baron Cohen
- Samantha Barks
- Aaron Tveit
- Daniel Huttlestone
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Story of Grace put to music. Lovely
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It's also a testament to the strength of Claude-Michel Schonberg's music that everything after the show-stopping lament of Fantine's I Dreamed a Dream doesn't come across as so much padding.

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.

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.
