Movies Like The Critic (2024)

The Critic is a 2024 crime, drama, mystery, thriller film from Anand Tucker with a MovieMagicScore of 5.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Morning Glory and The General Died at Dawn.

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Morning Glory

1933

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?

6.1

MagicScore

The General Died at Dawn

1936

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

6.3

MagicScore

A Scandal in Paris

1946

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

6.4

MagicScore

Downtown

1975

A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds up with three bullet holes that seem to have come from the private eye's own gun, he's got to prove he's not the murderer meanwhile getting tangled deeper in a web of deceit, lies, and steamy night club dancers!

5.5

MagicScore

Dinner at Eight

1933

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

6.7

MagicScore

Being Julia

2004

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.

6.4

MagicScore

There's No Business Like Show Business

1954

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

6.1

MagicScore

Bitter Feast

2010

A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career.

5.1

MagicScore

Inland Empire

2006

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

7.0

MagicScore

#10

The Big Bounce

2004

A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.

4.9

MagicScore

#11

Black Widow

1954

When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway producer.

6.3

MagicScore

#12

Pocketful of Miracles

1961

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

7.6

MagicScore

#14

Breakdown

1997

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker ― who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff then begins a desperate, frenzied search for Amy.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

Pretty Poison

1968

A troubled arsonist spins a tale of espionage to a captivating girl, who becomes enthralled and entangled in his dangerous fantasies, leading to unexpected murder and chaos that change their lives forever.

6.7

MagicScore

#16

Side Effects

2013

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

6.6

MagicScore

#17

Out of Time

2003

Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

6.3

MagicScore

#18

Brooklyn's Finest

2010

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

Double Face

1969

After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.

5.8

MagicScore

#20

The Cat's Meow

2001

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

5.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Critic?

The top films similar to The Critic by MovieMagicScore are Morning Glory (6.1), The General Died at Dawn (6.3), A Scandal in Paris (6.4). Each shares crime/drama/mystery/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Critic worth watching?

The Critic holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.9/10 from 92 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Critic?

The Critic (2024) is a crime, drama, mystery, thriller film directed by Anand Tucker, starring Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Critic?

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About movies like The Critic

This ranked list pairs The Critic (2024), a crime and drama and mystery and thriller film from Anand Tucker, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Ian McKellen take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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