The Grinch is bright and colorful, but the narrative feels a bit off from the anti-consumerist message that Dr. Seuss may have originally intended.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 7, 2019

[The Grinch] is excessively well-meaning and very tame. No doubt it will please those who will always love the story, no matter what shape it takes, but you have to be a fan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2018

Cumberbatch... does not let us down.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 26, 2018

It's a beautiful-looking movie. Young kids will like it, but I was kind of bored with it.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 20, 2018

It's best for kids and adults who just can't handle the angry, diabolical monster of films past.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 20, 2018

The latest animated iteration of Christmas' most famous nemesis might not be strictly necessary, but it's still pretty fun - and revamped just enough to feel fresh.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 18, 2018

Sounds like pure sugar, but really it's just sweet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 11, 2018

It is as uninspired as it is undemanding.

| Nov 10, 2018

This movie's heart, and its story, is definitely in the right place.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 9, 2018

"The Grinch" is a respectable, if safe, retelling of Dr. Seuss' holiday classic.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 9, 2018

You're a Mediocre One, Mr. Grinch. Those expecting Cumberbatch to add a little Dr. Strange to his take on Dr. Seuss will be sorely disappointed as this animated take on the Grinch buries its kid audience under a blanket of bland..

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2018

From time to time you'll laugh and maybe shed a tear, but this isn't the kind of Grinch you'll want to see each year.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2018

The new pleasantly animated Grinch, from the company that brought you the Minions, is a quaint, frictionless bauble.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2018

This movie is so shockingly bland, so immediately forgettable, so pedestrian in its plotting, that I found watching it to be fairly laborious.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2018

I'm happy to state, though my praise may be faint-ish / My critical heart is more pleased than complaint-ish. (Review in Seussian verse)

| Original Score: B- | Nov 9, 2018

Ultimately, though, this is a tender film that tries, in the most earnest way, to articulate the central Seussian idea that Christmas comes without ribbons, it comes without tags, it comes without packages, boxes or bags.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2018

It does not surpass the Chuck Jones version (or having the book read aloud by a parent, which is still ideal) but it is far superior to the Carrey film and should become a welcome family tradition.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2018

After a somewhat desultory first act, punctuated by lots of poppy "rap" songs, everything comes together.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2018

A critic needs only two words to dispense with The Grinch; the first one is bah.

| Nov 9, 2018

"The Grinch" is beautiful to look at, and diverting enough. The material written to fill out the story is entertaining, but it doesn't resonate. You can't top what Seuss wrote.

| Nov 9, 2018