Ebenezer wins Friday. Critics would rather talk about Paper Tiger.
Six films on the light table: Johnny Depp's Scrooge opens on top with mixed reviews, James Gray's New York crime drama and a Rocky origin story lead the critics, and a livestreamed heist movie struggles on both counts.
Put each film under the loupe ↓Under the loupe
pick a frameSix releases from this week, in order of how widely they opened. Choose a frame (or use the arrow keys) to magnify it: what the film is, who made it, what critics are saying, and the scores. Every judgment here belongs to critics; this page has not seen the films.
Where the two scoreboards disagree
Rotten Tomatoes counts the share of reviews that are positive; Metacritic averages how positive they are. A film everyone mildly likes can score high on one and middling on the other. Here are this week's six, plotted against each other.
- Paper Tiger is the one both sites agree on: 86% positive on Rotten Tomatoes and a 79 Metascore, with no negative reviews among Metacritic's 29.
- I Play Rocky matches it on the Tomatometer (86%) but averages 68 on Metacritic: broadly liked, rarely loved. wide gap
- Victorian Psycho shows the biggest spread: 75% positive but a 52 Metascore, with Metacritic's reviews split nearly evenly between positive and mixed. 23 pts
- How to Rob a Bank runs the other way: only 30% positive, yet a 48 Metascore, because many of its notices are lukewarm rather than outright pans.
The box office
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Sources
Scores were read on Saturday morning, Nov. 14, and will keep moving as reviews arrive.
- Rotten Tomatoes: Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol
- Metacritic: Ebenezer
- Wikipedia: Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol
- Rotten Tomatoes: Paper Tiger
- Metacritic: Paper Tiger
- /Film: Paper Tiger review
- The Film Stage: 15 films to see in November 2026
- Rotten Tomatoes: Victorian Psycho
- Metacritic: Victorian Psycho
- Rotten Tomatoes: How to Rob a Bank
- Metacritic: How to Rob a Bank
- Rotten Tomatoes: Ghost Soldier
- Metacritic: Ghost Soldier
- Rotten Tomatoes: I Play Rocky
- Metacritic: I Play Rocky
- The Numbers: weekend box office, Nov. 6, 2026
- ComicBookMovie: Ebenezer's CinemaScore and opening estimates
- MovieWeb: Ebenezer box office
- Deadline: Ebenezer opening to $20M+
- Gold Derby via Yahoo: weekend preview
- Box Office Mojo: release calendar