• Director(s)

    Anand Tucker

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    13/09/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    101m

  • Cast

    Ian McKellen, Lesley Manville, Ben Barnes

Film

The Critic

strong language

A renowned and feared theatre critic in 1930s London takes drastic, sordid action to protect his career in this dark and acerbically witty drama, which contains occasional strong language.…

A renowned and feared theatre critic in 1930s London takes drastic, sordid action to protect his career in this dark and acerbically witty drama, which contains occasional strong language.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

language

sex

discrimination

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

injury detail

alcohol and smoking

violence

  • Director(s)

    Anand Tucker

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    13/09/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    101m

  • Cast

    Ian McKellen, Lesley Manville, Ben Barnes

strong language
Classified Date:
14/08/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Lionsgate UK Ltd/ Lionsgate International (UK) Ltd (film)
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘bugger’, ‘bastard’, ‘bloody’, ‘sod’, ‘shit’, ‘arse’, 'God' and 'damn'.
sex
There are references to sex work, and to a character’s preference for ‘rough sex’. The term ‘f**k’ is used in the sexual sense. There is brief partial rear nudity as a person gets out of bed after implied off-screen sex.
discrimination
There are scenes of implicitly criticised historical homophobia and racism, including use of terms such as ‘queer’ and ‘sod’. Two men are arrested and subsequently interrogated by police for kissing in the street, an act described by various characters using terms such as as ‘unnatural’, ‘indecent’ and ‘perversion’. A gang of white supremacists confront a same-sex couple in a threatening manner. In another scene a woman complains that she should ‘never have married a Jew’.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A person attempts to coerce a woman into having a sexual relationship with a man by threatening her career. Another man is blackmailed using threats of a false accusation of ‘assault’.
suicide and self-harm
A person takes their own life off screen. Other scenes contain non-graphic verbal references to suicide and attempted suicide.
injury detail
There are brief images of an undetailed dead body following off-screen violence.
alcohol and smoking
Characters are shown getting drunk and smoking cigarettes.
Classified Date:
25/06/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Lionsgate UK Ltd/ Lionsgate International (UK) Ltd (film)

  • Classified date

    14/08/2024

  • Language

    English