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Polanski's version of Dickens' classic won't have audiences asking for more because while polished and directed with skill, the movie's a very impersonal experience.
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Please sir, can we have some less? October 8, 2005 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Please sir, can we have some less?
Andy Jacobs
It retains the book's emotional punch and darker elements - the spectre of the gallows is a running motif - and presents them in a way likely to engage younger viewers without patronising them. October 6, 2005 | Full Review…
It retains the book's emotional punch and darker elements - the spectre of the gallows is a running motif - and presents them in a way likely to engage younger viewers without patronising them.
Time Out Staff
It's noble, high-minded and safe, and I can't help thinking that I would have preferred an audacious but honest failure. September 30, 2005 | Full Review…
It's noble, high-minded and safe, and I can't help thinking that I would have preferred an audacious but honest failure.
Ann Hornaday
Great expectations are unavoidable when Roman Polanski takes on a Charles Dickens classic. Alas, his version of Oliver Twist fails to live up to them. September 30, 2005 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Great expectations are unavoidable when Roman Polanski takes on a Charles Dickens classic. Alas, his version of Oliver Twist fails to live up to them.
John Hartl
A grounded and unusually matter-of-fact adaptation. September 30, 2005 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A grounded and unusually matter-of-fact adaptation.
Mick LaSalle
Poignant and primal, Roman Polanski's splendid adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic pricks the heart and the conscience. September 30, 2005 | Rating: 3/4
Poignant and primal, Roman Polanski's splendid adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic pricks the heart and the conscience.
Carrie Rickey
Polanski's Oliver Twist is a flawed but harrowing, empathetic view of the world seen through the eyes of its most powerless and invisible citizens. January 30, 2020 | Full Review…
Polanski's Oliver Twist is a flawed but harrowing, empathetic view of the world seen through the eyes of its most powerless and invisible citizens.
Felicia Feaster
Polanski and Harwood have streamlined the meandering narrative to Dickens' second novel, which may horrify purists, but which works well enough for the filmmakers' purposes. April 27, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Polanski and Harwood have streamlined the meandering narrative to Dickens' second novel, which may horrify purists, but which works well enough for the filmmakers' purposes.
Miles Fielder
Certainly Polanski deserves our gratitude for obliging the cast not to sink their teeth too deep into Dickens' juicy dialogue. October 17, 2018 | Full Review…
Certainly Polanski deserves our gratitude for obliging the cast not to sink their teeth too deep into Dickens' juicy dialogue.
Dan Sallitt
A smorgasbord of urban decay, social disorder, and class conflict imbues the film with a potent sensuality August 29, 2013 | Rating: 79/100 | Full Review…
A smorgasbord of urban decay, social disorder, and class conflict imbues the film with a potent sensuality
Dan Jardine
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Nell Minow
Oliver Twist is an affecting and refreshing adaptation of Dickens seminal work from a master director. April 25, 2011 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Oliver Twist is an affecting and refreshing adaptation of Dickens seminal work from a master director.
Joshua Starnes
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