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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
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Oliver Twist
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Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s.
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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
Fresh
Poignant and primal, Roman Polanski's splendid adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic pricks the heart and the conscience.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
In Oliver Twist, it's the viewer who is punished.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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