The Critic DVD stars Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton and Mark Strong, and based on the novel by Anthony Quinn.

The Critic DVD. The film follows an actress who finds herself in a dark situation involving a theatre critic and his paper’s editor in 1930s London.

The reimagining of Anthony Quinn's novel 'Curtain Call' centre on Jimmy Erskine (McKellen), the Daily Chronicle's most famous and featured theatre critic of the age; David Brooke (Strong), with whom he clashes after recently inheriting the paper; and a young actress, Nina Land (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.

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