Critic, The (2024)

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Synopsis

Dir: Anand Tucker. Period Drama. Based on the novel 'Curtain call' by Anthony Quinn. In 1930s London, a powerful theatre critic (Ian McKellen), threatened by the new owner (Mark Strong) of the newspaper where he works, enlists a young actress (Gemma Arterton) to help him prevent his boss from firing him.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive, some in a sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, and developmental slurs
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence - no blood, little detail; infrequent portrayals of corpses - no blood, some detail
• Infrequent references to suicide - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexually suggestive scenes - brief buttock nudity, little detail
• Frequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Art and theatre
• Perspectives on fame
• Power of art criticism

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language, mature subject matter, and sexual content

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