This Week's Poll is a Critics' Choice...or a Choice of Critics!

The movie industry has shown little interest in exploring the lives those who criticize its product for a living. Thus, there just aren’t a lot of movies about film or theatre critics. That said, a pretty impressive group of actors starred as critics in the films below. Which of the following is your favorite movie featuring a film or theatre critic?

Critic’s Choice (1963). Bob Hope plays a theater critic stuck in the unenviable position of reviewing a new play written by his wife (Lucille Ball).

Theatre of Blood (1973). Vincent Price stars as a Shakespearean actor skewered by drama critics, who gains his revenge by murdering them in stylish methods inspired by the Bard.

All About Eve (1950).  George Sanders won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his delightful turn as acid-tongued theater critic Addison DeWitt.

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960). In this light comedy, Doris Day suspects her theatre critic husband David Niven of having an affair with a younger woman (Janis Paige).

Citizen Kane. As the drama critic for the New York Enquirer, Joseph Cotten’s writer loses his job after writing a scathing (but honest) review of a dreadful operatic performance by Charles Foster Kane’s wife.

If you can think of any additional films about critics, please leave a comment. To vote in this poll, click on your choice in the green sidebar on the right.