The dialogue is laboured, and the direction is as subtle as a double-decker bus.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 1, 2022

When it comes to doing Charles Dickens novels, it seems like a flashy and cool thing to revive his work with the times, but it ultimately ends up pointless.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 12, 2021

It's like that Office episode where Michael and Dwight run around screaming "parkour!" but don't do anything cool.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 5, 2021

This slapdash collection of genre cliches is distinguishable only by its self-conscious winks toward the source material.

| Jul 31, 2021

The Oliver Twist adaptation is bankrupt and boring, drained of all interest or spark.

| Jul 30, 2021

It goes without saying that film adaptations of literary classes are not always going to get it right. This one never finds its way. Comes off as uncool and outdated.

| Jul 30, 2021

[The director] fails to realize how transparent the movie's shallow gimmick is or how repetitive the constant running, jumping, and climbing turns out to be...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 30, 2021

This is one of those films where the heroes are meant to be experts in subterfuge but their disguises are so patently unconvincing that it just makes everything seem kind of dumb and cartoonish.

| Jul 29, 2021

It has no fresh angle on the material at all - merely a heist-by-numbers subplot straight out Guy Ritchie's drafts bin, welded to Dickens' coming-of-age narrative with all the poetry of a press release for a brand collaboration.

| Jul 29, 2021

Charles Dickens gets a horrendous Gen Z butchering of his classic novel. Twist turns the nineteenth century tale of orphan pickpockets into a Guy Ritchie knockoff about freerunning.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 29, 2021

This idea would have seemed woefully misbegotten in 2010, when [parkour] was at its peak cultural and cinematic popularity; in 2021, it's already antiquated, laughable.

| Jul 29, 2021

There have been quite a few decent adaptations of 'Oliver Twist.' This isn't one of them.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 29, 2021

"Twist" has a capable supporting cast, but it's all empty calories and glossiness, forgetting to add interesting characters to a tale that's been done to death.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 28, 2021

Feeling more like a work straining for relevance than a coherent, captivating drama, the plot meanders and then lurches forward. Here it is.

| Jul 27, 2021

The parkour is the only good idea Twist has going for it. Rest assured, you won't be asking for more

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2021

Run, don't walk, from anywhere that happens to be housing this half-baked turkey.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2021

A modern version of Oliver Twist that reframes the famed orphan as a freerunner and graffiti artist who leaps between London's rooftops and tags the tallest of buildings, it's the update that no one could've asked for.

| May 3, 2021

A noble attempt to adapt Oliver Twist into a hip, youth-oriented inner-city heist film does little more than kill time...the film shoots for high-energy with a driving soundtrack and some nice parkour work [but] the direction is stuck in stop-start mode.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2021

One more interested in parkour than a truly convincing plot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2021

Ultimately a missed opportunity, and an absolute waste of an august cast, Twist in no way will leave an impression on audiences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2021