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- 2004
- R
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
- 2004
- R
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
Summary 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. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Jacob Tierney
Written By: Charles Dickens, Jacob Tierney
- 2004
- R
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
- 2004
- R
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
Twist
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Summary 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. (Strand Releasing)
Directed By: Jacob Tierney
Written By: Charles Dickens, Jacob Tierney
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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31% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
46% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
39
31% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
46% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
23% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Under Tierney's admirably low-key, unexploitative direction all his actors are memorable and never seem to be acting. Twist is decidedly dark but consistently engaging.
It's a mini-masterwork of acting. Stahl is definitely one to watch closely -- he's the real deal. But the emerging plot isn't.
Although the acting is uneven and the movie's dead spots make it feel far longer than its running time, the twist in Twist' is certainly clever.
A stripling of 24, Tierney has a very young man's immature passion for unrelieved misery, which borders at times on the tedious, at others on the downright comical.
In both Twist and "Idaho," the act of placing a larger-than-life literary figure in a constrained, narrowly naturalistic environment merely strips the characters of their scale and interest.
Even more egregious than the film's concept is its execution, as it somehow manages to make scenes of drug addiction, hustling and even brotherly incest quite tedious.
An intriguing idea for about two seconds.
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