Ian McKellen Has Clapped Back at Critics. Now He’s Playing One.
WEBSep 13, 2024 · In Anand Tucker’s new film “The Critic,” Ian McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, a closeted reviewer in 1930s Britain who covers theater with equal measures of wit and acid. “Despite her crimes ...
The Critic movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
WEBSep 13, 2024 · The Critic. An actress sat next to me at a wedding reception in London, but she used every bit of the plummy diction and faultless projection to reach the cheap seats she learned at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. “You do understand,” she intoned as though it was a line from Noel Coward, “that the AC-tor thinks of the crrrritic as the ...
Movie Review: In ‘The Critic,’ Ian McKellen's theater critic takes …
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Set in the 1930s in London, Ian McKellen is Jimmy Erskine, a veteran theater critic whose reviews can make or break a play or a performer. He has a monastic devotion to telling the truth, as entertainingly as he can, and knows what he must sacrifice to do so. “The drama critic is feared and reviled …
The Critic film review — Ian McKellen thrills as a vicious but needy ...
WEBSep 12, 2024 · “I have a deadline!” cries Ian McKellen in The Critic, a sure-fire way to get the sympathy of a journalist. The title is literal.
‘The Critic’ Review: Dangerous Liaisons - The New York Times
WEBSep 12, 2024 · But as a gay man in an era when Britain criminalized homosexual activity, he would, one assumes, be far more likely to be a victim of blackmail than its perpetrator. The Critic. Rated R for murder ...
The Critic | Britain’s most civilised magazine
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Ian McKellen relishes Machiavellian role in new film 'The Critic'
WEBPublished September 13, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT. Listen • 6:47. Sean Gleason. /. Greenwich Entertainment. Ian McKellen, left, plays a powerful and reviled theater critic in The Critic, alongside ...
The Critic (2023) - IMDb
WEBThe Critic: Directed by Anand Tucker. With Gemma Arterton, Ian McKellen, Lesley Manville, Mark Strong. A powerful London theater critic becomes entangled in a web of deceit and murder.
Ian McKellen Thriller The Critic Sets Release Date With ... - Deadline
WEBJul 18, 2024 · EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The Critic, a period thriller starring Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings franchise), which adapts Anthony Quinn’s novel ...
The Critic: Ian McKellan and Mark Strong Lead 1930s-Set Thriller
WEBSep 15, 2023 · Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton and Mark Strong star in 'The Critic,' a thriller about an acerbic theater reviewer scheming to save his career.
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