Twist

Isn't oliver twist an happy ending.Just stealing background and some points from the book does not make it a good movie.I am not for happy ending.But the ending is so boring.Even if they wanted it to be sad it could be... Full review

Isn't oliver twist an happy ending.Just stealing background and some points from the book does not make it a good movie.I am not for happy ending.But the ending is so boring.Even if they wanted it to be sad it could be... Full review

Not sure I bought him as Dogder but, the fact that I completely forgot he was playing a Dickens character at all says more for me. And even better, the director actually got Nick to bend his knees? Wonder how that... Full review

Not sure I bought him as Dogder but, the fact that I completely forgot he was playing a Dickens character at all says more for me. And even better, the director actually got Nick to bend his knees? Wonder how that... Full review

In theory, this might have been a good movie. It sounds like it could be interesting; in this case, they slaughtered it. Oliver the musical, and Oliver Twist the book are my favorites, so I can’t go into this movie without... Full review

What could have been a very interesting, original and captivating dramatic movie subject is turned here, in the hands of an apparently talentless director and a very bad screenwriter, into a terribly boring and at times ridiculously silly movie. Nick Stahl's... Full review

What could have been a very interesting, original and captivating dramatic movie subject is turned here, in the hands of an apparently talentless director and a very bad screenwriter, into a terribly boring and at times ridiculously silly movie. Nick Stahl's... Full review

In theory, this might have been a good movie. It sounds like it could be interesting; in this case, they slaughtered it. Oliver the musical, and Oliver Twist the book are my favorites, so I can’t go into this movie without... Full review

Twist isn't anything like I remember Oliver Twist being. Although, the script writer assumes his audience has read the book; he leaves a lot of plot holes open. Overall, I was very disapointed.... Full review

Twist isn't anything like I remember Oliver Twist being. Although, the script writer assumes his audience has read the book; he leaves a lot of plot holes open. Overall, I was very disapointed.... Full review

thick darkness, director Bartlett does well.....gave us a cartoonish, sentimental tale with hummable songs and step-lively dancing..... ... Full Review

In his descent into an amoral hell, Stahl more or less repeats his alienated turn in Bully, staggering about, drugged up and cosmetically bloodied from various nasty run-ins. He initiates innocent Oliver (Joshua Close) into his gritty lifestyle, while constantly rebuffing the poor waif's romantic advances. ... Full Review

It's certainly not the relentlessly depressing storyline -- if you don't know the Dickens tragedy already Tierney is smart in never showing the foreboding character of drug lord-pimp Bill Sykes, which makes him all the more menacing ... Full Review

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Three stars Grim ???n??? grand We???re told early on in Charles Dickens??? Oliver Twist , a bracing stage adaptation of the classic novel, that what we???re about to see is complete fiction. ... Full Article

It has been nearly a century since the first film based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist , and the Internet Movie Database indicates there have been over two dozen adaptations since then. ... Full Article

An intriguing idea for about two seconds, this updating of the Charles Dickens story into a contemporary Toronto where the pickpockets of Dickens's London become smack-shooting gay hustlers is a bum trip. In writer-director Jacob Tierney's scheme, the Artful Dodger ... Full Article

A calmly lucid re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist, updated to current times and moved out of the poor house and onto the streets of Toronto. ... Full Article

After countless faithful translations to the big screen -- not to mention one timeless, Oscar-winning musical version -- Charles Dickens' tale of downtrodden London youth is given a gritty, contemporary spin in this independent Canadian production. ... Full Article