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Hugo is an almost flawless movie with one remarkable characteristic: is visually stunning. Colors, scenarios, visual effects, city landscapes, everything is so beautiful that the whole tale becomes hypnotic. Scorsese shows once again how versatile he can be, proving that he deserves his place in the Hall of Fame as one of the greatest directors of all time. There's only a few guys in this business who can get the best out of every genre, and he's undoubtedly one of them. Hugo is a magnificent Dickensian-style tale, surrounded by lovely characters that will captivate you from the very beginning, making you roll into a mesmerizing 2 hours ride. Why ALMOST flawless? Well, you can call me picky if you want, but if part of the attraction of this movie is that it is situated in Paris, then let be in French. The Dickensian touch is great and the accent of the characters is musical, but if you want to use those resources in the film, just adapt the story and make it in London, cause having all these amazing Parisian characters speaking UK English sounds really misleading. I mean, you let it go when it's an animated movie and the main character is a funny little rat, but when actors are real things are different. That didn't prevent me from having a blast, though, but it just didn't feel like Paris, it felt like London.

The Artist isn't an homage to old movies, as you may read or hear around. The Artist is considerably more than that, and it's brand new. The Artist is creativity in its maximum expression, going all the way through from screen writing, directing and acting, since the very first minute to the last. The script is really fantastic and the director's vision of how to put that script down to images is even better. In a movie where there are no dialogs, every scene is crucial, and the director seems to understand that. Emotions are so well transmitted through the screen to the audience, that it really makes us think if dialog is fundamental in movie making. Well, the answer is no, when the execution is so perfect, but this is top notch movie making and especially top notch acting, which is probably the main feature of the whole film. The actors in this movie are so expressive that they don't need to talk to make you understand. You'll understand by only watching. You will laugh and you will cry, but more than anything, you'll probably love this movie, just as much as I did.

This movie is going to make you stand and wish you could have at reach any of the many nasty characters that appear on the screen just to spit on their faces. The scary fact that this film is based on a real story makes it even more visceral and annoying, sometimes unbelievable. I think that the great merits of the movie are basically two: first is the amazing adaptation of the story to the big screen. The whole script was written to deliver a solid thriller and the director has executed it flawlessly, without wholes. The movie feels like a fictional thriller, when deeply inside is more a drama that occurred/occurs in real life. The second major goal of Whistleblower is Rachael Weisz. She acts so well in this movie that hurts. She expresses so well every emotion that you can even feel her pain when you look into her face. This is a hard to accept movie for anyone who still believes in humanity, but it is true. Terrible true stories, when are convincingly told, are also good. Painful, but good.