“Scrooge” – Johnny Depp plays the legendary Dickensian curmudgeon who hates Christmas and everyone around him. The film has every chance of becoming a hittranslated

"Scrooge" (Ebenezer), a Christmas film directed by Ty West ("Widow's Cove", "Pearl"), an adaptation of the famous "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, has been released worldwide. The main role, a terrible miser named Ebenezer Scrooge, is played by Johnny Depp. This is his return to commercial cinema after his trial with his ex-wife Amber Heard. Film critic Anton Dolin tells how the new film fairy tale turned out.

As you know, on Christmas Eve three ghosts appeared to the hard-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. Let us compare them to three classic 19th-century English texts with which cinema is literally obsessed.

A little less than a year ago, Guillermo del Toro once again returned humanity to the story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Emirald Fennell reinvented Anne Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Well, Christmas markets have just begun to open around the world, the first snow has fallen, and it’s time for Scrooge, the legendary protagonist (or antagonist, you won’t understand right away) to resurrect from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”

This is the most filmed work of the British genius; according to some estimates, the number of its screen interpretations is close to three hundred; my favorite is with Beavis and Butt-head, an honorable second...