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NOOSE CYCLE Just another day at the office for longtime British hangman Pierrepoint (Spall, pictured with Mary Stockley) in this not-quite-gripping biopic
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Limited Release: Jun 08, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 90 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Juliet Stevenson and Timothy Spall
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
An empathetic Timothy Spall beetles his brows as Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's top-of-the-line public executioner from the 1930s into the 1950s, who, when he wasn't dispensing swift justice with a rope, liked to raise a pint and sing in pubs. (Juliet Stevenson keeps her own upper lip rigid as Mrs. P.) 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. B
Posted Jun 06, 2007
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- Review All or Nothing (Oct 25, 2002) | Lisa Schwarzbaum
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- Movie Review Redbelt (May 02, 2008) | Lisa Schwarzbaum
- Movie Review Limbo (1999) | Owen Gleiberman
