Sometimes you look at a movie adaptation of a classic book and it’s as if you’re reading it with the filmmaker, turning the pages together. Roman Polanski’s “Oliver Twist” takes the useless question ...

Running time: 135 minutes. Rated PG-13 (disturbing images). At the Lincoln Square and the Loews Village. POVERTY and violence don’t look so adorable in Roman Polanski’s somber adaptation of “Oliver ...

When filming a seminal piece of English literature like Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” the conservative choice for a director is to keep the work as loyal to the source material as possible. The truly great ...

After the devastating emotional rawness of Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama “The Pianist,” the director’s take on Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” is an oddly distant and disappointing affair. Other ...

That Roman Polanski decided to follow "The Pianist" and a best-director Oscar with "Oliver Twist" at first seems curious. The world doesn't necessarily need another screen version of Charles Dickens' ...

Before he became cinema’s enfant terrible and a fugitive from U.S. justice – and long before he won an Academy Award – director Roman Polanski was a small boy trapped in a nightmarish childhood of ...

Without his name on the credits, it would be difficult to identify the latest version of “Oliver Twist” as the work of Roman Polanski. Conventional, straightforward and very much within what used to ...

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...

The latest re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic story of squalor, neglect and adolescent exploitation in 19th century London — the original hard-knock life, yo! — comes courtesy of none other than ...