Director – Anand Tucker – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 101m The first four fifths of The Critic ***** The final fifth of The Critic * In the 1930s, a London theatre critic, a flamboyant homosexual known for destroying careers with his acerbic prose, finds his job under threat from his newspaper’s new […]
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