Peterloo

I find it amusing that people are trying to suggest that, because he followed Mr Turner up with this, Mike Leigh is currently on a historical trend. If you think that Peterloo is something that belongs to the past, then you're living in cloud cuckoo land. The Peterloo…

Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸

opens with the brutal end of the battle of waterloo and the duke of wellington receiving a cash reward from parliament for the victory while a young solider who actually fought stumbles his way home alone welcomed by trauma and poverty. what follows is a deeply…

Josh Lewis

88 An often devastating observation of language within class disparities, as well as the hypocrisy that heightens such tension. Its opening of a soldier stumbling home, lost and alone, after battle while the men in charge receive a hefty bonus for their 'efforts', is the…

SilentDawn

Mike Leigh's Ken Loach movie.

matt lynch

Okay so you remember when your history teacher used to make a long prologue about what you were going to study but they remembered the time was going to finish so they just explained the actual lesson in 10 minutes? This is exactly how to sum up this movie.

Matteo

As soon as a rag-clad Maxine Peake begins onerously sculpting a batch of Yorkshire puddings, you know you have arrived in the North of England. She, the mother of a shell-shocked soldier, is the heart of this historical retelling of the Peterloo massacre. Her family are our…

Will Steele

Extraordinary in many respects, vividly realizing a piece of history with the level of detail only Mike Leigh can muster— the faces, the songs, the gatherings, and finally the massacre are rendered with the scrupulousness of other Leigh period films like Topsy Turvy and…

Scott Tobias

I saw this at Leeds International Film Festival 2018. Mike Leigh's Peterloo is a film of the working class, of the fight for liberty and against oppression. It's also about the inevitable, bloody backlash from those with power. Peterloo is a very specific story, of an…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

Come on Mike this could easily have been 90 minutes long and actually good. Cut out 34 of the 47 identical speeches, give us more scenes and emotional connection with Maxine Peak’s family and the various Northeners, and the climax would have been so much more…

Amy Andrews