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Critics Consensus: Peterloo proves writer-director Mike Leigh's populist anger remains undimmed - but that righteous fury occasionally overpowers the narrative.
Critic Consensus: Peterloo proves writer-director Mike Leigh's populist anger remains undimmed - but that righteous fury occasionally overpowers the narrative.
All Critics (57) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (21)
You can feel Leigh's fury glowering off the screen through the entire last act, but that fury does the film and the filmmaker little service.
Those with the patience and attention span are rewarded; the last 30 minutes is perhaps the most visceral filmmaking Leigh has ever pulled off...
The authenticity is immersive, even if the historical exposition occasionally feels like prep for an exam no one's warned you about.
Leigh's passion for the material seems to have led him to approach it from an angle more pedagogic than artistic.
With this richly intelligent, passionate movie Mike Leigh has fought a brilliant rearguard action on history's political battlefield.
It's a stately, explicitly rhetorical paean to the people - setting the past in stone while also lashing out at a present-day political order.
The most disappointing film of the year.
It seems perverse that a film of such length should find no home for so many of its director's assets. Detailed character-work, complex domestic relationships, humour: these are elements that would have made the picture engaging.
Peterloo's deliberate pacing and structure makes the evolution of a movement feel completely organic.
Peterloo feels a little too much like an agenda is being pushed, but this is nevertheless a powerful, pertinent piece of work.
Violence takes a backseat to powerful rhetoric in this dense, Universal Credit-era history lesson.
It is beautifully shot and the costume department have a real eye for detail... but despite the sheer drama of these historical events and their relevance to today's fractured world, Peterloo fails to ignite real passion and anger.
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