In the Dark Reviews

Over the course of seven years of writing film and television reviews for local newspapers, I've recommended several selections for holiday viewing, but what follows is my baker's dozen of personal favorites for the season, listed in the order in which they should be seen this month.

1. "A Christmas Carol" (1984)

Alastair Sim is considered by many to be the best onscreen Ebenezer Scrooge, but George C. Scott's fierce TV movie portrayal of Scrooge ranks among the all-too-few adaptations of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella to remember that it is a ghost story, with an appropriately haunting atmosph...