Christmas is the time of year when the world's candy-coated fluff smothers us into sentimental submission — but there's no one better to swap out seasonal mistletoe for sour grapes than Bill Murray. Easily besting The Muppet Christmas Carol as the greatest contemporary retelling of Dickens' classic (nice try, Swedish Chef), Scrooged casts Murray as Francis Xavier Cross, a callous TV executive and first-class ass, who receives a visit from three ghosts on Christmas Eve — and, well, you know the rest. Mary Lou Retton, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Lee Majors each terrorize or are terrorized by Murray, whose performance alternates between cool apathy and schizoid apoplexy.