Indeed, there really isn’t much to criticize in “The Critic.” And when it comes to McKellen’s singularly outstanding lead performance, the only suitable response lies somewhere between ...

No one is immune to bad reviews. Take it from Sir Ian McKellen, who bared all in a 1974 production of “King Lear” in Brooklyn. John Simon, a critic for New York magazine, was largely unimpressed.

He may have masterfully played Gandalf, wizard and leader of the Fellowship of the Ring, but even Ian McKellen has been on the receiving end of a bad review. In The Critic, out in theaters Friday ...

As a critic preparing to write about The Critic, I feel somewhat intimidated. The eponymous writer at the center of Anand Tucker's period drama, Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen), uses his words as ...

The Critic would have benefited from the exact opposite. Dir: Anand Tucker. Starring: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Ben Barnes, Alfred Enoch, Romola Garai, Lesley Manville.

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 ...

Ian McKellen stars as a theater critic in the 1930s London thriller "The Critic." Gemma Arterton and Mark Strong also star, with a plot involving deceit, treachery, and fascism. Directed by Anand ...

LONDON — Ian McKellen is listening to his inner critic. It’s beating him up for not finishing out his latest theater role after he fell off the stage during a June performance of “Player ...

By Elisabeth Vincentelli 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.

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 ...

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 ...