Film Review - The Critic

Ian McKellen proves a suitably acidic lead in Anand Tucker's muddled drama, but Mark Strong impressed me more in his supporting role

Credit: Lionsgate

I have a soft spot for films featuring critics. Typically, they are wonderfully unpleasant characters onscreen. Think Peter O’Toole’s Anton Ego in Ratatouille (2007). Or the cast of critics murdered in gruesome pseudo-Shakespearean ways in Theatre of Blood (1973). In the case of Ian McKellen’s Jimmy Erskine in The Critic, he’s a fine ad…