Review: Hugo

Nonna's Rating: $$$$

Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

Audience: 82%

Hugo was the best movie I saw this year. Generally, critics liked it, but relatively few moviegoers saw it. I predict it will be one of those films about which, ten or fifteen years in the future, we will say, "How did people not flock to this movie? Why didn't they see what we see?" I have many reasons for my love of this film: 1. It's about movies; the birth of film. 2. It's impeccably directed by Scorsese. 3. The child actors, Asa Butterfield as Hugo and Chloe Moretz as Isabelle carry the film well. And Asa's blue eyes are riveting in 2D or 3D. 4. The 3D is so integral to the film and appropriate to the meaning, I lost my awareness of it and just enjoyed the movie. 5. The other actors, especially Sacha Baron Cohen, Emily Mortimer, Jude Law, and Ben Kingsley only add to the film. 6. And finally and most importantly, a magical story full of wonder helps us rediscover why we love to sit in large dark rooms with strangers and gaze at flickering patterns of light on a silver screen.

Nonna's Rating

$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening

$$$ = Worth paying the Matinee price

$$ = Worth a rental

$= Wait for cable

# = Skip it