Usually, Scrooge ends his story at his nephew Fred's house, finally embracing the holiday with the family he has spurned, but no one is inviting this Scrooge anywhere.

| Jan 18, 2020

It was bleak. It was joyless. It was all taken from a desolate colour palette. It was about as Christmassy as piles.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2019

[Steven] Knight's inventions, while florid, did create a psychological truth behind Scrooge's conduct, a reason for his transformation beyond the magic of Christmas.

| Dec 30, 2019

It ought to be too hammy to hang together, and it would probably have worked as a one-off film rather than the full three-hour mini-series, but I found myself watching, mainly due to the central performances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2019

A Christmas Carol looks gorgeous but is too stilted, too mannered, too self-aware and, ultimately, too slow. Bah, humbug.

| Dec 23, 2019

This was clearly aiming to be more than a predictable period drama. Hurrah for that, because what is the point in remaking something unless you're going to bring something different to the table?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2019

It might have been successful had it included enough optimism to countervail all the misery. But Knight unwisely and a bit heartlessly chooses to forgo that kindness to sink us into the bleak of it all, and does so during the darkest days of the year.

| Dec 23, 2019

A Christmas Carol like none you'd ever seen.

| Dec 23, 2019

Traditionalists will hate it, while modern audiences will regard this three-parter as too dated. It is also so dimly lit and slow that you sometimes wonder whether the 온라인카지노추천 has switched itself off.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 23, 2019

By widening its scope so early on in a deliberately downbeat manner, it's difficult to see how this version of A Christmas Carol will manage to create that intensely joyous feeling that so many of us love.

| Dec 23, 2019

This was a total cut above the crowd - nutty, muscular, textured and with Guy Pearce delivering an intense, complex performance as Scrooge.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2019

Steven Knight induces an impressively brooding and sombre tone to proceedings in this three-part adaptation, while stripping Dickens of much of his over-fertile virtuosity. The result is Dickens for those who don't much like Dickens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 20, 2019

Classicists may quibble with the casting of Guy Pearce, but he's a fine actor, and just the man to lend existential impatience to the ice-hearted businessman.

| Dec 20, 2019

Those hoping to get into the Christmas spirit and come away feeling warm inside, touched by the power of kindness, might want to avoid A Christmas Carol.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 19, 2019

Lenny Rush's performance as Tiny Tim was refreshing: Rush's Tim is witty and delivers his lines with a wisdom beyond his years.

| Dec 19, 2019

Having watched to the conclusion, I'm pretty sure we aren't witnessing the premiere of a new holiday tradition.

| Dec 18, 2019

This remoulding of A Christmas Carol is a welcome and wintry depiction of torment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2019

Pearce is undeniably good, but the script, with its aphoristic philosophy planted in the mouth of a character who'd historically been a fairly unintellectual money-hoarder, never allows him to compel us.

| Dec 18, 2019

Approximately three joyless hours of watching an adaptation try to justify its edginess.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 18, 2019

Someday, we may be able to forgive this Christmas Carol. Just not this year.

| Dec 17, 2019