of mean-spiritedness." The film also has a score of 38 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 14 critics indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". In 2015, IGN named it the 11th-best holiday movie of all time. In 2016, Empire listed Scrooged as the seventh-best Christmas film, and in 2017, Time Out and Consequence of Sound listed it as, respectively, the 12th-best and 23rd best. That same year, Collider named it the fifth-best adaptation of A Christmas Carol, calling it is easily the best non-traditional translation of the story, and saying that it uses "a classic tale of redemption as the framework for a satire of modern culture's desire to embrace the irredeemable". In 2018, The Ringer said that even 30 years after its debut, the film represented the perfect Christmas movie, saying it is "loud, cartoonish, and misanthropic, but... remarkably well-suited for our fraught present moment". David Johansen's New York Dolls bandmate Arthur Kane was sent into a jealous rage after seeing Johansen's prominent role in Scrooged''. Kane reacted by beating his wife, and attempting suicide by jumping from a third-story window. See also List of Christmas films List of ghost films Adaptations of A Christmas Carol References Bibliography External links 1988 films 1980s Christmas comedy films 1980s fantasy comedy films 1980s ghost films 1988 romantic comedy films American Christmas comedy films American fantasy comedy films American ghost films American romantic comedy films 1980s English-language films Films scored by Danny Elfman Films about television Films based on A Christmas Carol Films directed by Richard Donner Films produced by Art Linson Films set in New York City Films set in 1955 Films set in 1968 Films set in 1969 Films set in 1971 Films set in 1988 Films set in the 1990s Films set in the 2000s Films shot in New York City Films shot in Toronto Paramount Pictures films Films with screenplays by Michael O'Donoghue Films with screenplays by Mitch Glazer Miles Davis 1980s American films