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
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…
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