Gurinder Chadha’s Dickens do-over is a typically original perspective on a canonical classic, if let down by its stretched production values and unlikable songs. But it aims only to be a crowd-pleaser, and may yet become one.

It’s only November and this film has given me an overload of Yuletide nausea.

Christmas Karma is a film made with the best intentions by some lovely human beings, but which keeps finding new and spine-twistingly embarrassing ways to fall on its face.

The tale’s sometimes pantomime tone undermines the more serious drama around the 1970s expulsion of Indians from Uganda and an immigrant’s struggle for acceptance in Britain.