THE CRITIC

By Anand TUCKER

CULMINATION - as SALES All rights, World / PROD

Drama - Completed 2023


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2023
Special Presentations
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama, Crime
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Anand TUCKER
    • Writer(s)
    • Patrick MARBER
    • Producer(s)
    • Jolyon SYMONDS (Fearless Minds), Bill KENWRIGHT (BK Studios)
    • Synopsis
    • The reimagining of Anthony Quinn’s novel ‘Curtain Call’ centers on Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen), the Daily Chronicle’s most famous and feared theatre critic of the age; David Brooke (Mark Strong), with whom he clashes after recently inheriting the paper; and a young actress, Nina Land (Gemma Arterton) who is devastated by Jimmy’s recent negative review of her. As the three become entangled in a whodunnit wrapped in a Faustian pact, their strange triangle winds tighter and tighter to devastating effect for all those caught in the deadly web of blackmail and betrayal.