If you're feeling a need for something more cynical this holiday season it's a great choice

| Dec 7, 2024

Despite Murray's impeccable portrayal of sneering meanness, the film masterfully strikes a careful balance between heartfelt moments and hilarity.

| Jan 12, 2024

It’s the sort of picture where it’s easy to understand the POV of both its fans and its detractors, and I myself have over the decades gone from believing it was slightly underrated to now believing it to be slightly overrated.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2023

Even if one doesn’t have enough interest in the 4K UHD aspect to snag this new edition, the film itself holds up so well in any format as to make the time spent with Frank always feel worth it.

| Nov 5, 2023

Despite a lengthy wind-up that promises to deliver at least a minor tug at the heart, Scrooged is as sterile as some of the film's sexist gross-out jokes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2021

Scrooged is one of the few times in the history of cinema we see faeries as the complicated, cruel, monstrous, (and sometimes funny) creatures they are - David Bowie's The Labyrinth being another rare example.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 23, 2020

It's not a bad notion for a satiric comedy and this one begins well, but then veers entirely out of hand until it's as over-inflated as its own Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and as funny as a mugging.

| Nov 19, 2019

On balance... Bill Murray's lazy humor carries the movie up until his genuinely sweet relationship with an old girlfriend.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2019

It's a missed opportunity, but some gags still hit the mark and there's a stream of starry cameos...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2019

Scrooged is, indeed, phenomenally loud, and also very mean, and somehow also ultimately heartening, in a loopy yuletide sort of way.

| Nov 27, 2018

Still, Murray is magnificent in the film, the effects are better than you'd expect, and the 1988 version of Hollywood excess is almost quaint by comparison with the CGI purgatory we live in today.

| Dec 15, 2017

It would be hard to improve upon the classic, after all, and Scrooged not only sticks to the Dickens plot, but makes it believable as a modern fable. But the more difficult part of Scrooged is its modernization, the colorization of Dickens, if you will.

| Dec 9, 2017

Murray, it's clear today, was the perfect Scrooge of the '80s.

| Original Score: A | Dec 29, 2015

Despite the juicy, on-the-edge craziness, Murray is able to layer his outrageous histrionics with an inner sensibility, making his ultimate transformation not only believable but Christmas-cheer uplifting.

| Apr 7, 2015

Murray doing what he does best, if you like that sort of thing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2011

It's got Bill Murray, and that's always a good thing.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 4, 2011

A meaningful Christmas Carol this is not, but a perfectly entertaining yuletide comedy this certainly is.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 13, 2009

Bill Murray is the one of the greatest screen Scrooges in this 1980s updating.

| Aug 20, 2009

Tacky in the extreme, this self-congratulatory 1988 film is an exercise in hypocrisy, indulging every form of Christmas exploitation that it pretends to attack, and many of the laughs are forced.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 27, 2007

A number of talented actors appear, but only a few are able to make much of a mark given their limited screentime.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 27, 2007