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A Christmas Carol (TV Miniseries)

A Christmas Carol

2019

Steven Knight (Creator), Nick Murphy

Guy Pearce, Stephen Graham, Andy Serkis, Kayvan Novak ...

6.6

998

TV Series. Fantasy. Drama TV Mini-series (2019). 3 Episodes. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.

	Media	Author	Review
		Michael Hogan Telegraph	"The dialogue is poetic but delivered with naturalism (...) An ambitious, brutal take on Dickens’s familiar ghost story (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"It makes for approximately three joyless hours of watching an adaptation trying to justify its edginess (...) Pearce is formidable (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Daniel D'Addario Variety	"This is hardly enjoyable to watch (...) Shifting Scrooge to antihero in the vein of 'Breaking Bad' or 'Mad Men' distances us from the story"
		Paul Kirkley Radio Times	"Guy Pearce is a revelation in the lead role (...) In Steven Knight and Nick Murphy’s hands, this familiar story feels vivid and vital and new (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Robert Rorke New York Post	"Writers like Knight (...) want to affix a modern-day sensibility on a classic tale. Or teach Dickens a thing or two (...) His success rate with 'A Christmas Carol' is about 60 percent"
		Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"A take on Dickens’ tale that looks into the darkness of the season, the unhappy hearts thrown into relief by jollity, and asks who deserves their share of joy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Definitely not for kids. Probably not for grown-ups either (...) At its very best, it's an attempted in-depth character study of Scrooge, one that meshes very poorly with the inspiring structure of the story"
		Ed Cumming Telegraph	"It would probably have worked as a one-off film rather than the full three-hour mini-series, but I found myself watching, mainly due to the central performances (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tricia Crimmins Mashable	"Although it's well-executed and thought-provoking, I found such a bleak and, frankly, distressing overhaul too dark for my liking."

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