Ebenezer, starring Johnny Depp, opens to mixed reviews
‘EBENEZER’, starring Johnny Depp, is now at 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. • One of the lowest rated ‘A Christmas Carol’ film adaptations of all time.
Saturn🪐- Charlie's Good Boy231Maybe this isn’t a great year for a “maybe the billionaire was the good guy all along”: the movie?
Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research)150It is hard to imagine that if multiple versions of a film exist, that I would somehow choose to watch the one *without* muppets.
TheXVthshadow58I see Skydance is getting coal in their stocking this year. Good
Steve Will Shan52I TOLD y'all, we already have the definitive version!
Mary Grace51I will never watch a Johnny Depp film again, or a Russell Brand film, or a Woody Allen film.
Something in Mind29I'm gonna not watch it even harder now.
Cai : go see DIGGER42This dude hasn't turned in a good performance in 20 years and is literally getting another chance *because* he abuses women. Otherwise he'd already be out to pasture.
Michaelody Moocaw 🔜 MFF31-One homeless person does something awful. -Powerful central character uses it as justification to hate on an entire community of people. -Film is written to be wish fulfillment of that entire community being evil. Certainly not mirroring real life events happening right now. Certainly not!
Jean-Michel Connard31Johnny Depp turns to dust, leaving only a pile of scarves and an 8 ball in his wake.
Steve “Thanksgiving” Losewood23Lmao at these review headlines
Roku Draws22You know what? I think I'll add "A Flintstones Christmas Carol" to my holiday watchlist.
Lazy Girl17Maybe because the movie has been adapted A MILLION TIMES already and PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF REMAKES.
Fate🔜MFF16Saw this coming a mile away with the 'Scrooge had a point' angle this movie was going for. Go see Wildwood, instead, while it's still in theaters 👍
Blahokazooie16To use the words of a certain CEO against said CEO, it seems like Skydance's Ebenezer has "No pop culture impact".
aslynn is autistic actually 🪴12"Johnny Depp's Ebenezer reviews" is a trending topic and before I clicked on it I finished the sentence with "are terrible because of course they fuckin' are" if you recall, this is the adaptation where you're supposed to feel more sympathy for Scrooge and less for the poors
🏳️🌈🎃Brendan Agnew🎃🏳️⚧️8Don't worry, it'll go lower.
I've fallen off sharing my reviews here for reasons I don't want to explain at this moment, but yeah, EBENEZER can go fuck itself. consequence.net/2026/11/eben...
CoraBGodsey3Great review - fair and informative. I never planned on seeing this one because there is only one Ebeneezer Scrooge in my world that's Alistair Sim's creation - but you sealed the deal. It sounds like its a movie that missed its point by a mile.
Meredith Berg2Dear lord, adding in a stabbing??? Wild!
trigon01.bsky.social1Did Johnny Depp write it?
Amadeus1You should be sharing your reviews; they're good!!!
V Fogerty1When you're a shitty person, I guess you don't mind being a money sponge and will do ANYTHING... for the buck and the little seat with your crappy name on it. Fuck depp, with rotten old vienna sausages... still in the can, but opened.
egarmontrose.bsky.social1Ebenezer Scrooge... The story of a man imitating Keith Richards doing and imitation of Alastair Sim.
That's weird, yesterday (before the review embargo lifted) people were saying this was a "holiday treat" and that Depp was "wickedly fun" as Scrooge www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
Morbid Hegel20Nobody should be giving Depp leading roles anymore, fuck him, let him rot in obscurity.
Andy Beaton15Alistair Sim and Michael Caine already meet all my Scrooge needs.
Rock12One man’s “wickedly fun” is another man’s “absolutely insufferable”.
Revolutionary_Jack 🕷🕸!6We have a new list of paid scabs promoting a studio movie’s reception
Judith Haran2The 1984 version with George C. Scott brings me to tears every time I watch it. I believe it's on youtube.
"Ebenezer" changes the story to portray the poor as criminal by nature: "Scrooge’s jovial old boss Fezziwig (Ian Midlane) gets stabbed to death on the street, a victim of his own generosity. Happy fucking holidays!" consequence.net/2026/11/eben...
Suzanne the Slacker11This tells me the 1%ers are nervous 😏
DisMoviePod7There was never a chance if me watching it, but wow does it sound worse than I expected. Somehow!
Sturg483Bro no way. I knew this was gonna be shit, but holy hell. That's amazing. It's like everyone's worst expectations are real. I'm so glad for reviewers who watch bad movies on our behalf.
Julia Van Dyke, the ðude 🏳️⚧️🦋2i thought this was a satire article
KamuiShoJira2yeah that sounds like the kind of thing the ellisons would be into
Gar McVey-Russell1Yikes! Sounds like something the 1% would cook up “for kicks.” Seeing how the election totally turned against them, I hope this movie similarly BOMBS with flying colors. 😳 💣
Making poor people and the charity people the villains in Ebenezer. Fuck this movie, fuck Depp and fuck Ti West. You know what? I avoided his work this year for my Horror movie marathon because I thought it'd be in bad taste given Ebenezer but wow knowing what I do soured me.
Ryan Robotham9So between this, Wuthering Heights, and Animal Farm, a trinity of literary adaptations that want to be modern without investigating the text.
CassBeSpooky 🏳️⚧️8Wait really? Like how the fuck do you screw up A Christmas Carol that badly when every other adaptation has at least kept the whole thesis of “Scrooge is an evil bastard”
🐻 🍂 🦃 Tio_Drohan 🔜 Grateful Thanksgiving Bear🐻🍂 🦃8"Ebenezer why are you such a scrooge????" "because charity people and poor people killed my grandma!". That's the vibes I'm getting from this movie...
Joan of Ark7what do you mean "the poor people are the bad guys". what is going on in this movie. Charles Dickens spinning in his grave
Toto5😬 Yeah I’ll just re-watch the Muppet one this holiday season.
At our critic screening of EBENEZER my intern couldn't understand a $38mil movie having $50mil in marketing—when the film seemed designed to be instantly forgotten. So I tried to explain winter of 2015, when every billboard in America advertised MORTDECAI (a mass hallucination that remains unproven)
Lloyd Dobler's Ghost4This is the one Shaq was in, right?
Paul Novemstetler3HA! I remember: Wes Anderson turned down Depp for the role of M. Gustave in Grand Budapest Hotel so Depp made his own movie using a shitty Wodehouse character to show what he WOULD have done and yeah, Depp may have only had one good creative decision ever and that was just Keith Richards.
quin2I've read more than half of Dickens' novels (and his American Notes), and he was deeply, profoundly moved by the plight of the poor (and other persecuted groups). This attempt to dilute Dickens' moral critique is truly vile and unChristian. It poisons Christmas too.
