To this day, How the Grinch Stole Christmas stands as one of the most inspired and truly magical holiday texts.

| Original Score: A | Aug 28, 2022

With a little more polish and a lot more restraint this could have been a holiday treat. Instead it’s a repetitive and sometimes laborious exercise...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Gaspar Noe by means of Lars von Trier with John Waters, David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bobcat Goldthwait, Rob Zombie, Darren Aronofsky, Uwe Boll, the Farrellys and Tim Story serving as creative consultants.

| Jun 25, 2022

It just doesn't work taking these short Seuss stories and turning them into a feature film. Very unpleasant to watchd

| Oct 11, 2020

I truly believe that Dr. Seuss defies adaptation and is best left in print and in the imaginations of all who read the stories.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

It's just an ugly piece of work.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 6, 2019

Director Ron Howard aims for the beautifully stylized mayhem of Frank Tashlin and Tim Burton, but he comes closer to the clamorous, headache-inducing visual overkill of Joel Schumacher's Batman movies.

| Nov 6, 2019

It's sweet enough for the very young, edgy enough for teens, and world/pop culture savvy enough for adults.

| Nov 6, 2019

The film is an act of love that doesn't quite transmit all of the passion it wishes it could. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2019

A forgettable film in Ron Howard's repertoire. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 6, 2019

I just can't imagine the editor and director sitting down together, and THIS being the final product.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 14, 2018

They really didn't have solid direction, they were just doing too much. That's coming from me, someone who routinely does too much.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 14, 2018

Director Ron Howard usually lets his comedies gestate organically, but his Grinch is frantic from start to finish.

| Nov 29, 2018

A fundamentally soulless, mercenary attack on soulless, mercenary things, and this ends up being deeply tedious and tiresome to watch, on pretty much every possible level.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Nov 19, 2018

The director, Ron Howard, is a grand old heartwarmer (Cocoon, etc.) but the heart of this picture is dead.

| Feb 3, 2018

Such a departure from the book, it's not even Dr. Seuss.

| Dec 6, 2013

Live-action version of classic has some crude, scary moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

An unforgivable transgression from the usually reliable Ron Howard, "Grinch" boasts the visual polish of a Menards tree aisle and resembles not a cheerful Christmas, but rather what the bloodcurdling onset of a mescaline bender might feel like.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Howard and the rest of the crew do something the late Dr. Seuss never would: take chronological age over the youthful, innocent spirit that lingers untouched in everyone--and never goes out of style.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 17, 2010

Five-year-olds might go for it, but people who grew up with Jones' version will be looking at their watches and grinding their teeth.

| Feb 5, 2008