Dan Stevens is Dickens and Christopher Plummer Scrooge in an imaginative if twee festive film.
The liveliness of the performances go a long way to compensating for the creakiness of the concept.
Dan Stevens is on lively form as Dickens, but while no turkey, the end result is mostly a lot of whimsical nonsense.
Dan Stevens plays Charles Dickens in this tin-eared, saccharine, entirely terrible comic fantasy about the writing of A Christmas Carol.
It is all a bit frantic and flippant but if you are looking for something to fill you with festive spirit then you could do worse.
A lightweight, tinselly film with some nice touches and appealing performances, though it never lands its darker moments.
The story behind the writing of A Christmas Carol gets lost is this twee, cliched sketch.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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