SCROOGED
 All Critics (49) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (15)
 Despite a lengthy wind-up that promises to deliver at least a minor tug at the heart, Scrooged is as sterile as some of the film’s sexist gross-out jokes.
 
 August 17, 2021 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Ryan Murphy
 Miami Herald
 TOP CRITIC
 It’s not a bad notion for a satiric comedy and this one begins well, but then veers entirely out of hand until it’s as over-inflated as its own Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and as funny as a mugging.
 
 November 19, 2019
 
 Sheila Benson
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 On balance… Bill Murray’s lazy humor carries the movie up until his genuinely sweet relationship with an old girlfriend.
 
 November 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Gene Siskel
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 Despite the juicy, on-the-edge craziness, Murray is able to layer his outrageous histrionics with an inner sensibility, making his ultimate transformation not only believable but Christmas-cheer uplifting.
 
 April 7, 2015
 
 Duane Byrge
 Hollywood Reporter
 TOP CRITIC
 Murray doing what he does best, if you like that sort of thing.
 
 November 9, 2011 | Rating: 3/5
 
 William Thomas
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 Tacky in the extreme, this self-congratulatory 1988 film is an exercise in hypocrisy, indulging every form of Christmas exploitation that it pretends to attack, and many of the laughs are forced.
 
 November 27, 2007 | Rating: 1/4
 
 Jonathan Rosenbaum
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 Scrooged is one of the few times in the history of cinema we see faeries as the complicated, cruel, monstrous, (and sometimes funny) creatures they are – David Bowie’s The Labyrinth being another rare example.
 
 May 23, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Sezín Koehler
 Black Girl Nerds
 It’s a missed opportunity, but some gags still hit the mark and there’s a stream of starry cameos…
 
 November 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
 John Ferguson
 Radio Times
 Scrooged is, indeed, phenomenally loud, and also very mean, and somehow also ultimately heartening, in a loopy yuletide sort of way.
 
 November 27, 2018
 
 Rob Harvilla
 The Ringer
 Still, Murray is magnificent in the film, the effects are better than you’d expect, and the 1988 version of Hollywood excess is almost quaint by comparison with the CGI purgatory we live in today.
 
 December 15, 2017
 
 Sean Nelson
 The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
 It would be hard to improve upon the classic, after all, and Scrooged not only sticks to the Dickens plot, but makes it believable as a modern fable. But the more difficult part of Scrooged is its modernization, the colorization of Dickens, if you will.
 
 December 9, 2017
 
 Cathy Burke
 United Press International
 Murray, it’s clear today, was the perfect Scrooge of the ’80s.
 
 December 29, 2015 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Rob Gonsalves
 eFilmCritic.com…