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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman reviews
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6.0 User Score:

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Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Bob Mills
Jeff Pope

Directed by: Adrian Shergold

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 1, 2007

Running Time: 90 minutes, Color

Origin: UK

Summary

RATING: R for disturbing images, nudity and brief sexuality

Starring Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, and Eddie Marsan

Timothy Spall gives a devastating performance in the true-life story of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most notorious hangman. (IFC)

What The Critics Said

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88

TV Guide Ken Fox

British actor Timothy Spall gives a shattering performance as Albert Pierrepoint.

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88

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The key to the film is in the performances by Spall and Stevenson -- and by Marsan. The utter averageness of the characters, their lack of insight, their normality, contrasts with the subject matter in an unsettling way.

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80

Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen

At once desperately grim and unnervingly gripping, providing an exacting sense of the detail and procedure that went into death by hanging.

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75

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

This measured bio-production might be viewed as a lesser companion piece to "Vera Drake" -- although in the case of Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, all the period-piece tastefulness makes for a story more instructive than emotionally tangible.

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75

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

This is a riveting story about a man who for years moonlighted as an anonymous hangman while holding a day job as a wholesale grocery delivery man.

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Kamal AL-Solaylee

Invites viewers to think critically about such weighty concepts as justice, atonement and personal accountability.

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75

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Like its hero, the movie doesn't flinch for most of its running time.

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70

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This 2005 feature has a drab "Masterpiece Theatre" feel, though Pierrepoint is a fascinating study in ethics: he takes pride in his work, wants his victims to die swiftly and painlessly, and considers hanging an absolution.

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70

The New York Times Stephen Holden

In Pierrepoint:The Last Hangman Timothy Spall sinks his teeth into one of the juiciest roles of his career.

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70

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Like most television directors, Shergold is good with actors. Jowly, impassive and rigid with righteous dignity, Timothy Spall makes a wonderfully meticulous Pierrepoint.

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70

New York Magazine David Edelstein

Pierrepoint is worth seeing for Shergold's attention to process and for all the ghoulish details.

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58

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

Dramatizes and occasionally overdramatizes Albert's 24-year career. For a while, it's a study of a decent man who puts his life into compartments so he can do terrible deeds.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

A peculiar little film -- grim and disturbing yet perversely riveting.

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50

New York Post V.A. Musetto

You have to wonder just how true to life the melodramatic depiction of these events is, especially since the film was made in partnership with TV's "Masterpiece Theater."

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

Pierrepoint is handsomely crafted and well-acted, but its sense of scale is as constricted as a noose.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jim G gave it a5:
Disappointing primarily because Spall has always been so dependable. Unfortunately, the role he is given here is johnny one-note: the weight of pierrepoint's conscience is there at the beginning at the end with no real dramatic build. The same can be same for the cinematography. No contrast is offered emotionally or visually.

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