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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 30 Oct 2018

Even though there's no focal lead character, each of the performances is strong…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 30 Oct 2018

In his desire to inform our heads, Leigh often forgets that he needs to engage our hearts us as well…

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By Matthew Singleton (3) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 22 Oct 2018

There is no life and no urgency to the film. It ultimately feels static and stale…

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By Jenny Desborough (4) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 18 Oct 2018

There are some truly harrowing moments of shock, slightly sullied with some on the nose dialogue, but ultimately this story captures the political…

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By Jeremy Aspinall (70) for Radio Times (2,421) on 17 Oct 2018

Despite Leigh being out of his comfort zone with such a massive movie undertaking, his ability to seamlessly move between the lives of disparate…

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By Alexa Dalby (160) for Dog and Wolf (160) on 16 Oct 2018

Overall, the film is an overdue and absorbing socialist recreation of an important historical event that's rarely aired yet still seems perennially…

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By Dan Sallitt (28) for MUBI (191) on 19 Sep 2018

Ultimately one goes along with the project's anger and manipulation, or withdraws…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Sep 2018

Peterloo so simply recounts the details of its subject matter that its culminating horror unsettlingly feels like little more than a cathartic…

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By Tomas Trussow (247) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 09 Sep 2018

Peterloo, while not ranking among his greatest efforts, is still a deeply majestic and intelligent work that reconciles the words and actions…

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By Kayleigh Donaldson (8) for Pajiba (523) on 07 Sep 2018

The detail is truly exhaustive…

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By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 07 Sep 2018

As a historical account it is unvarnished without feeling dry or academic, and as a coded satire of the contemporary British political climate…

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By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 05 Sep 2018

When a homeless lady bursts into song, it feels overly theatrical and unnecessarily manipulative, and it's the first sign that Peterloo will…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 04 Sep 2018

Leigh presents this history through a series of immobile setpiece scenes, crafted with dull fidelity, one rallying speech after another, as…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 03 Sep 2018

Leigh's achievement is to have made a period film with the same immediacy and sense of anger that runs through contemporary dramas like Hillsborough…

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By Baradwaj Rangan (28) for Film Companion Reviews (159) on 03 Sep 2018

We've heard of the pages of history coming alive on screen. Peterloo feels like someone gave us the textbook, instead…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 03 Sep 2018

There exists a cavernous gap between a powerful idea and a great movie, and it's where you will find this latest ambitious, if flawed, Mike…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2018

Leigh translates the defining moment–and those in the immediate lead-up–to the screen with tremendous weight and great clarity, making…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for Sight and Sound (827) on 01 Sep 2018

Mike Leigh's film is a powerful blunt weapon, hitting back for the people who refused to…

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By Philip De Semlyen (78) for Time Out (7,510) on 31 Aug 2018

The authenticity is immersive, even if the historical exposition occasionally feels like prep for an exam no one's warned you about…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 31 Aug 2018

I wish the long-gestating dream had resulted in a better film…

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