Pierrepoint - The Last Hangman Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

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

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

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.Read the full review

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

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