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

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    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.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    80
    At once desperately grim and unnervingly gripping, providing an exacting sense of the detail and procedure that went into death by hanging.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    75
    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.
  4. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    58
    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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  1. JimG
    5
    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.… Collapse

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