Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
A Christmas Carol has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of A Christmas Carol (1938)
By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Dec 1975
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A Christmas Carol was released in 1938 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 223 reviews, giving A Christmas Carol (1938) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 77%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 64%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with A Christmas Carol than critics were.
With a score of 73%, A Christmas Carol is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1938, which stands at 60%.
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