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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 15 Apr 2015

Like a dime-store holiday card, this Christmas Carol is well-crafted but artless, detailed but lacking soul…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Feb 2015

This time, though, Zemeckis has another technical trick up his sleeve – 3-D – and for once the gimmick succeeds…

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By Dbpirate1129 (45) on 11 Jan 2015

Not a bad film by any means…

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By Lukechristiansc (452) on 20 Dec 2014

I remember when I watch this movie in theatres the joy on my face was lighting like a Christmas tree, when I saw this animated movie…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Oct 2014

The unspoken theme underlying Dickens’s prose--that the money-grubbing Ebenezer is conversing with semblances of his own self--finds near-perfect…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for Time (1,811) on 20 Jun 2014

A ghost story, a bustling action-adventure and an example of the comedy tour-de-farce, in which the star validates his virtuosity by appearing…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Jan 2014

The holiday spirit feels real, but the film does not…

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By Wow560 (2) on 23 Nov 2013

Very nice film. There is a lot of special effects, some humor, some dramatization, and mostly old words in the 1500's…

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By Rayzormoose (165) on 16 Nov 2013

A Christmas Carol is beautifully average. The movie simply adapts the book reluctantly…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 15 Aug 2013

A marvelous and touching yuletide toy of a movie…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 31 Jul 2013

Carrey’s Scrooge is deliciously pinched and credible. As, indeed, is this film -- that is, when it feels like Dickens and not a theme park ride…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for New Orleans Times-Picayune (573) on 23 May 2013

As beautiful as the animation is, Zemeckis' real masterstroke is combining it with a loyalty to Dickens' story…

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By Writefilmlive21 (48) on 17 Dec 2012

Considering it's probably the most cinematically-adapted story in history, any new treatment of A Christmas Carol might easily be overlooked…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Nov 2012

Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol is, in its essence, a product reel, a showy, exuberant demonstration of the glories of motion capture, computer…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 23 Jul 2012

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…

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By Dbreez (3) on 13 Jun 2012

In 3D version it looks very truthfully. Ebenezer Scrooge was egotist and after visit of ghost is very nice and friendly man…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 11 Jun 2012

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…

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By Landf (27) on 18 Apr 2012

I can sum this up in one short phrase: PG rated horror film…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Jan 2012

Either you cotton to Zemeckis’ motion-capture aesthetic or you don’t: To me, it seems like an awful lot of effort for an insignificant…

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By Marnee96 (23) on 20 Dec 2011

The story is a christmas classic and it sports amazing visuals, but the visuals seem to overwhelm the movie so it can be a bit tiresome and…

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