Around this time of year, you can hardly throw a Christmas tree bauble in a multiplex without hitting a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol . There are so many versions of the famous festive parable that nobody is quite sure how many have been made; Wikipedia’s best guess is “countless”. One thing we can be sure of — we don’t really need another one.

Defiant and disruptive to her core, along comes Gurinder Chadha, a filmmaker who made her name with Bend It Like Beckham back in 2002, and has since cast her multicultural lens on the likes of Jane Austen ( Bride And Prejudice ) and Frank Capra ( It’s A Wonderful Afterlife ). In Christmas Karma , she gives the Dickensian classic a genuinely intriguing, narratively rich wrinkle: what if Scrooge w

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