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Cinema

It’s like being trapped in an episode of Poldark: Peterloo reviewed

3 November 2018

9:00 AM

3 November 2018

9:00 AM

Mike Leigh’s Peterloo is one of those films where you keep waiting for it to get good, and waiting and waiting. It’s Mike Leigh; it’s bound to get good soon. But it never does. It’s essentially two hours of men shouting at each other, followed by a burst of violence.

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