Fresh
Poignant and primal, Roman Polanski's splendid adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic pricks the heart and the conscience.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Oliver Twist
Overview
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
Director and cast
- Roman Polanski Director
- Barney Clark as Oliver Twist
- Ben Kingsley as Fagin
- Jamie Foreman as Bill Sikes
- Harry Eden as The Artful Dodger
- Edward Hardwicke as Mr. Brownlow
- Leanne Rowe as Nancy
- Ian McNeice as Mr. Limbkins
- Timothy Bateson as Parson
- Chris Overton as Noah Claypole
- Andy Linden as Mr. Gamfield
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
In Oliver Twist, it's the viewer who is punished.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
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, Washington Post
Rotten
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, Seattle Times
Fresh
A grounded and unusually matter-of-fact adaptation.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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