Scorsese Does a Famly Film

Rating: 8/10 (8 December 2014)

In 1931, 12-year-old Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) lives in Paris with his father, a widowed, but kind and devoted master clockmaker. Hugo's father takes him to see films and loves those of Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley) best of all.
It is no secret that Scorsese loves film. As a director, you have to, but some just go above and beyond devouring every aspect of it. Scorsese is one of those, and this is his love letter to cinema, harking all the way back to its beginnings with Georges Melies.
The cast is incredible, with Chloe Moretz, Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. Heck, we even have Ray Winstone and Jude Law. Quite a lineup.
Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars saying "Hugo is unlike any other film Martin Scorsese has ever made, and yet possibly the closest to his heart: a big-budget, family epic in 3-D, and in some ways, a mirror of his own life. We feel a great artist has been given command of the tools and resources he needs to make a movie about – movies." Spot on.