94% Hugo

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Scorsese transforms this innocent tale into an ardent love letter to the cinema and a moving plea for film preservation.

'Hugo': Scorsese's humbling hommage to his favorite art

Thematic potency and cinematic virtuosity -- the production was designed by Dante Ferretti and photographed by Robert Richardson -- can't conceal a deadly inertness at the film's core.

For all the wizardry on display, Hugo often feels like a film about magic instead of a magical film...

I have seen the future of 3-D moviemaking, and it belongs to Martin Scorsese, unlikely as that may sound.

It's a fairy tale for mature viewers, but the airy exterior hides emotional depth.

The heart-shaped story may be the key that sets Hugo in motion, but this rediscovery of the cin?ma de papa is most memorable for its technical wizardry and astonishing visual trickery.

Scorsese's regular production designer Dante Ferretti has outdone himself with this set, and I can understand the desire to show it off, but this is the first time I've felt a closer attachment to one of his sets than the people who are on it.

It is glorious to be thrown and blown about in this make-believe metropolis. The digitally enhanced shapes and colours suggest Jeunet and Caro reworked by a polychromatic Piranesi.

As soon as the lights went up in the theater, I told my viewing companions that I honestly felt that seeing the film was a privilege.

[T]here's certainly much to admire here... [but] Hugo feels like two very different films inelegantly spliced together...

It's possible to see the attraction, but when people break into applause over the credits, some are going to be left cold.

It's a deeply felt piece of work, something which only Scorsese could have brought to the screen...

Beautifully photographed and well acted but the storyline, especially when Kingsley's character takes center stage, is tediously tiring

Martin Scorsese unleashes his devotion to the magic of movies with a zeal that is enchanting.?

For youngsters with a secret sense of wonder about how the world works, Scorsese is offering a golden key to a limitless world of make-believe.

A masterpiece of visual storytelling and a heartfelt homage to the industry that Scorsese has triumphantly made his own.

Beautifully made and superbly acted, Hugo features terrific 3D effects and stands as a charming love letter to silent cinema, but it's let down by a weak central plot and the script never quite connects on an emotional level.

It might be curtains for celluloid, but Scorsese, a boyish 69, clearly isn't leaving the stage any time soon. He directs every film with the passion of his first. And it shows.

Director Martin Scorsese's well-documented affection for all things cinema has never been more evident than in the enchanting and imaginative Hugo.

It sounds a bit strange to say this about the man who gave us Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and so many other classics of hardcore machismo, but Martin Scorsese's new movie Hugo is delightful.

Scorsese's best film since Goodfellas... a celebration of the transportive joy that comes from watching [movies].

The charming if overly gilded story of an unwanted teenage boy rescued by art and friendship.

Something very rare: a celebration of past achievement that doesn't succumb to nostalgia. Scorsese pays his respects to the past but also demonstrates that the artform Melies loved remains exciting.

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