“It seems a strange role for him, very British in its humour and, on the page at least, killingly unfunny.”

“The show is killingly funny and the cast rise to the occasions that are presented to them with a panache rarely seen in ensemble playing.”

“In the film, there is a killingly funny vignette in which Joshua McGuire's Ruskin, who cannot pronounce his Rs, purrs with self-satisfaction at his own ideas – the critic who got the cream.”