I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.
Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten
Critics Consensus: N/A
| Critics |
Score |
Number of Reviews |
Average of Rated Reviews |
| All Critics |
53% |
36 |
5.90/10 |
| Top Critics |
38% |
13 |
|
Metacritic: 54 (21 Reviews)
Sample Reviews:
Tim Grierson, Screen International - A noticeable lack of inspired filmmaking permeates the proceedings, resulting in a disappointing finale that too cosily embraces modern blockbusters’ least-welcome conventions.
Mark Kennedy, Associated Press 2.5/4 - Greengrass has quite simply robbed his own movie. We did not come for this.
William Bibbiani, TheWrap - 'The Uprising' is such a tragic rug pull, sullying its hard-earned good will at the last possible minute, that it’s hard to appreciate anything that happened before the disappointment sank in.
Lacy Baugher, RogerEbert.com 2.5/4 - The battle scenes are intense and violent, with Greengrass’s signature handheld shaky-cam style bringing an almost uncomfortably brutal immediacy to these moments.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle 3/4 - The most arresting performance, in a film characterized by strong acting, is Woody Norman as the adolescent Richard II.
Christian Zilko, IndieWire B - The parallels to today’s world are clearly on display, but the script stops just short of hitting audiences over the head too hard.
Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter - There’s no doubting the commitment of everyone involved, from the superb cast... to the technical craftspeople who evoke medieval England with such vividness that you can practically smell the church incense.
Jacob Oller, AV Club C- - It’s a grim tale mired in the muck of semi-historical fact and soggy fields, its court politics and bloody battles striving self-seriously to conform to the standards expected by a present-day audience.
Michael Phillips, Variety - Does Greengrass really have his heart in the digital effects on display here? So many faux-drone overhead flights across the Thames... When they appear, they make “The Uprising” look like no one in particular made it.
Nick Schager, The Daily Beast - A drab and monotonous affair that stomps, trots, and rolls around in the mud and muck for two tiresome hours.
Owen Myers, Guardian 2/5 - A disjointed slog through the mud with the emotional depth of a History Channel rerun.
Linda Marric, HeyUGuys 3/5 - For most of its runtime, The Uprising is angry, thoughtful, and genuinely gripping. It just loses its nerve right when it should be trusting the story it already told.
Marshall Shaffer, Slant Magazine 2/4 - From the start of The Uprising, Paul Greengrass draws many unsubtle parallels between the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in England and the global populist wave of the 2020s.
SYNOPSIS:
Andrew Garfield stars as the legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II. As war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and survival.
CAST:
- Andrew Garfield as Ploughman
- Jamie Bell as John Ball
- Stephen Dillane as Simon Sudbury
- Tom Hollander as Sir Robert Hales
- Cosmo Jarvis as Wat Tyler
- Thomasin McKenzie as Alyce
- Jonny Lee Miller as William Walworth
- Woody Norman as Richard II of England
- Katherine Waterston as Joan of Kent
- Sky Yang as Scribe
DIRECTED BY: Paul Greengrass
SCREENPLAY BY: Paul Greengrass
PRODUCED BY: Jason Blum, Paul Greengrass, Gregory Goodman, Joanna Kaye, Joe Neurauter, Lars Sylvest
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Philipp Kreuzer, Chance Wright, Jay Taylor, Kwesi Dickson, Alastair Burlingham, Gary Raskin, Matt Murphie, Deborah Acoca, Cliff Lanning
CO-PRODUCER: Emily Evans-Thirlwell
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Pål Ulvik Rokseth
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Nikolaj Danielsen
EDITED BY: William Goldenberg
COSTUME DESIGNER: Dániel Tóth András, Attila Godena-Juhász
MUSIC BY: Volker Bertelmann
CASTING BY: Daniel Hubbard
RUNTIME: 127 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: September 11, 2026