Engaging, Wonderful, Entertaining

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2012)

In 50+ years of film-going this is one of the most engaging movies I've ever seen. What ought to be said about it has already been said by other reviewers, so I won't repeat. I was mostly curious as to what people who DIDN'T like it found to criticize. Glancing through their comments, the principal objection seems to be that it was "boring", which leads me to wonder why someone who COULD think this would have wasted their money on it in the first place?
So, as a useful guide, here is a list of movies that were awarded 9 or 10 stars by reviewers who gave Hugo 1-star. If you tend to like the following films, there's a good chance you'll be wasting your time on Hugo. For anyone else, I hope you enjoy it at least half as much as I did, which will be a lot: Enter the Dragon (2006), Puss in Boots, Hunter Prey, Spartacus: Vengeance, The Crazies, Skyline, Hannibal Rising, The Mayor of Hell, etc. You get the idea.