Only rabid Dickensians will find fault with the present adaptation, and paradoxically only lovers of Dickens will derive maximum pleasure from the film.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

An unmissable rerelease.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2007

The graveyard scene is still a shocker, the details are still astonishingly well assembled, and the performances are wonderful.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2007

This is still the definitive version of Charles Dickens' amospheric and occasionally creepy classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 29, 2007

David Lean's black-and-white masterpiece may be a whirlwind tour of Dickens' novel, but what a well-performed, economic and atmospheric tour it is.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2006

[A] glowing illumination of the warm and deliciously surprising tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 20, 2003

[It] has been called the greatest of all the Dickens films, and [it] does what few movies based on great books can do: Creates pictures on the screen that do not clash with the images already existing in our minds.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000