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The Independent on Sunday - Nicholas Barber | Screenrush Barometer:  |
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'As long as you're prepared to be chilled, A Christmas Carol is a splendid ghost-train ride. My main complaint is that it's being released such a long time before 25 December. But considering how spooky it is, maybe it's fitting that it's coming out so soon after Hallowe'en.' |
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The Sunday Times - Edward Porter | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Generally, though, the film's loud, gaudy style (in places too macabre for small children) is true to the story's spirit. It is done with skill and imagination, and overseen by a director, Robert Zemeckis, who knows the value of occasionally quietening things down for a bit of tension or a precisely timed joke.' |
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The Observer - Philip French | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'faithfully rendered and extremely frightening' |
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Evening Standard - Derek Malcolm | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Watch the opening few minutes, where Zemeckis and his team set the scene, and you can only wonder. Watch the last sequence, which ends the abruptly, and you may curse. Still, in between, there are many wonders and a series of weathered and withered faces of which Dickens himself would have been proud.' |
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Time - Richard Corliss | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'While the 3-D gimcrackery should keep the kids happy, Carrey's knack for finding character within caricature makes this an experience that probes and touches as much as it pokes and nudges.' |
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New York Times - A.O. Scott | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'I mean the source material, without a corporate possessive attached to it ? remains among the most moving works of holiday literature, and Mr. Zemeckis has remained true to its finest sentiments. He is an innovator, but his traditionalism is what makes this movie work.' |
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The Financial Times - Nigel Andrews | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Dickens purists can stay away. Others can feel free to sample the rollicking aerial views of Victorian London, the droll and scary elasticity of Carrey - animation reconfirming what he does anyway - and Zemeckis's brave decision to keep much of Dickens's original dialogue.' |
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The Daily Mail - Chris Tookey | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Commendably faithful to Dickens' |
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The Daily Telegraph - Tim Robey | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'At its best, this revamp of A Christmas Carol gets it just right.' |
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The Independent - Anthony Quinn | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The depth of detail impresses, even if the last-gasp conversion to altruism seldom does.' |
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