How bad is Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’? Let’s call it a failure of epic proportions
Rory Kinnear plays Henry Hunt in "Peterloo." (Photo: Simon Mein) If you happened on any five-minute stretch of “Peterloo,” it might look like another finely tuned, gently probing historical film from writer-director Mike Leigh (“Vera Drake,” “Mr. Turner”). But it doesn’t take long to suspect you are witnessing an […]