‘Ebenezer’ Review: Johnny Depp Scowls His Way Through a Spookily Atmospheric but Redundant ‘Christmas Carol’ Retread

‘Ebenezer’ Review: Johnny Depp Scowls His Way Through a Spookily Atmospheric but Redundant ‘Christmas Carol’ Retread hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 12, 2026 9:00am PT ‘Ebenezer’ Review: Johnny Depp Scowls His Way Through a Spookily Atmospheric but Redundant ‘Christmas Carol’ Retread Tinged with horror, as one might expect with Ti West at the helm, the umpteenth adaptation of the seasonal standard isn’t a Scrooge-up, but who exactly is it for? By Guy Lodge Plus Icon Guy Lodge Film Critic @guylodge Latest Remembering Sebastián Lelio, an Auteur Who Centered Women’s Stories With Style and Sensitivity 4 days ago ‘Jimmy’ Review: Cornball James Stewart Biopic Gets the Manner, but Not the Man 6 days ago ‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: Football Heroes Take to the Battlefield in Peter Berg’s Emptily Macho WWII Epic 2 weeks ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments “Before he was Scrooge he was Ebenezer ,” claims the poster for “Ebenezer,” which seems a bit of a desperate lie.

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The character of Ebenezer Scrooge did, presumably, have a first and last name at all stages of his life, both of them quite well-known to anyone even tangentially acquainted with Charles Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol” — of which Ti West ‘s handsomely produced, Gothically flavored new film is the latest in a countless string of adaptations. Other marketing materials at least acknowledge the familiarity — “The name you know, the story you don’t,” runs another tagline — while still positioning “Ebenezer” as some kind of origin story or alternative spin on an oft-told tale.

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Related Stories UFC 333 Livestream: Here’s How to Watch Volkanovski vs. Evloev Online for Free The biggest surprise of the film, however, is that it’s really no such thing.

A mostly straightforward take, albeit with slightly grislier ghost effects than most viewers will be used to, it tweaks and pads the narrative here and there — but not in ways drastic or daring enough to justify all this revisionist framing. That’s more of a relief than it is a disappointment — an edgelord “Christmas Carol” wasn’t on anybody’s holiday wishlist — but you can see why the powers that be at Paramount may have been inclined to exaggerate matters a little.

As it is, the most unique selling point of “Ebenezer” is the retro Hammer horror styling that one might expect from West, the indie-rooted genre classicist behind “The House of the Devil” and the “X” trilogy. Yet this PG-13 release also stops some way short of being an outright horror film, faithfully upholding Dickens’ sentimentally redemptive arc and meaning-of-Christmas message.

Too frightening for many children and too old hat for many adults, then, “Ebenezer’s” commercial prospects thus rest on its biggest gamble: the casting of Johnny Depp in the title role. Back from the international arthouse wilderness after eight years on the A-list blacklist, Depp returns to studio cinema to take on the kind of flamboyantly transformative, pantomime-style part that he used to do on the regular for the likes of Tim Burton and Gore Verbinski.

Slathered in peaky old-age prosthetics, with a hunched, craggly demeanor and short, snarly vocal inflections, he makes for a perfectly solid, by-the-book Scrooge — with occasional moments of ripe inspiration in his line readings — without ever broaching the pained, soulful depths of, say, Alastair Sim’s gold-standard screen incarnation from 1951. It’s perhaps canny that Depp has chosen for his comeback vehicle a character who hardly demands to be loved: How much viewers are individually rooting for the star himself may determine how much they share in the film’s warm-an

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