Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
An exhilarating visual experience and proves for the third time he's (Zemeck) is one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D. Read full review
A marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie. Read full review
Shockingly, the new film turns out to be very good, at times close to brilliant: a darkly detailed marvel of creative visualization that does well by Dickens and right by audiences - when it’s not trying to sell them a theme park ride. Read full review
If some of the animation overdoes it, a lot of it is downright gorgeous. Few images this year have followed me home like the Ghost of Christmas Past, here imagined as a bright-flamed candle with the face of a child. It flickers. It whispers. It flies. Read full review
Like a dime-store holiday card, this Christmas Carol is well-crafted but artless, detailed but lacking soul. Read full review
Visually immersive but emotionally uninvolving. Read full review
Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol is, in its essence, a product reel, a showy, exuberant demonstration of the glories of motion capture, computer animation and 3D technology. On that level, it's a wow. On any emotional level, it's as cold as Marley's Ghost. Read full review
This Christmas Carol seems like a pale ghost of Dickens' magical Christmas classic. Read full review
Gary Oldman pulls off his own hat trick, playing both noble Bob Cratchit and sickly Tiny Tim, as well as Scrooge's late partner, Marley, who haunts the miser in fluorescent green. Read full review
This sad excuse for family entertainment tries to enshrine a classic while defacing it. Read full review
1.5
Dave White Profile
Christmas evil... Read full review
2.0
Jen Yamato Profile
Deck the halls with boring CGI. Read full review