| Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: September 13, 2024 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
10
Mixed:
13
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1
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Critic Reviews
McKellen – now in his mid-Eighties, still sporting – hasn’t brought this kind of twinkling malevolence to the screen since his starring role in 1995’s Richard III, which coincidentally transposed its story of power grabbing and backstabbing to 1930s, fascists-rising England, the very same milieu of this acidic drama.
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The GuardianSep 12, 2024
The film has an odd teatime glow of cosy-crime sentimentality which deadens the effect, and this period drama can’t quite bring itself to show that, in the 1930s, murder was punishable by death. But McKellen overrides these concerns; his glorious star quality and dash make him the only possible casting.
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The GuardianSep 11, 2023
The IndependentSep 13, 2024
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