The Critic 2024 Film. Ian mckellen, left, plays a powerful and reviled theater critic in the. In the critic, it is 1930s london and jimmy erskine revels as the most elite of theater.

Set in the 1930s in london, ian mckellen is jimmy erskine, a veteran theater critic whose reviews can make or break a play or a performer. Jimmy erskine (mckellen) is the most feared.