A powerful London theatre critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.
Ian McKellen’s “The Critic” Arrives In Theaters September 13
London, 1934. Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle newspaper dies, and his son David Brooke (Mark Strong) takes over, …