Christmas Karma: A New Yearly Festive Rewatch?

'Christmas Karma': What The Backlash To Gurinder Chadha's Film Reveals About Our Reviewing Culture

Christmas Karma‘s negative reception by mainstream media has been striking not only for its severity, but for the tone behind many of the reviews. By virtue, seasonal films often divide opinion, but the language used here has been unusually sharp. Critic Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described the film as “an overload of Yuletide nausea” and compared it to “a dead rat in the eggnog.” Robbie Collin of The Telegraph called it “among the worst thi…

Christmas Karma: A New Yearly Festive Rewatch?

Paul Evangelista discusses Gurinder Chadha’s film adaptation of A Christmas Carol. In 1992, Michael Caine portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge with the gravitas and sincerity of a Shakespearean performer, surrounded by an ensemble of muppets. In 2009, Scrooge came to life as an uncanny motion-capture creation in Robert Zemeckis’ computer-generated fever dream of a film. Now, this festive season, the same character gets called a wasteman during a song and …