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  Review by Sparks Lowry ★★★½ 1

  Among Stahl's best performances; you realise the reason he was never a big star was because he really was this fucked up.

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  Review by robyn 🔪 ★★★½ 1

  literally blacked out with glee at the brother noncon incest. can't believe i watched this purely for nick stahl playing a teenage junkie sex worker and then was given the best surprise I could've asked for. a film brave enough to ask hey what if Oliver twist was mysterious skin. thank you bisexual priest from letterkenny you're a gem

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  Review by saul ❄️ ★★

  pretty dull and unconvincing acting, I like that they don’t use a soundtrack though really, definitely adds to the bleakness and null tones of this tragic story... but it was not saved by the bell. if the camera work was of higher quality, and the actors actually tried, i could see myself giving this 3 stars or more. i can see why people like this movie so much, just didn’t get to me.

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  Review by Cat ★★★★★

  It’s just immaculate, possibly better every time I come back to it. The acting, the casting, the writing, the direction, the cinematography, the soundtrack. All perfect. This movie spins around Nick Stahl and he is the center of it all. He and Joshua Close are just spellbinding- absolutely perfect casting. Close as Oliver is the perfect foil for Stahl, he brings the much needed heart along with Nancy.
  The atmosphere is just incredible, it’s raw, it’s desperate, clawing, unfeeling, sinking, painful, hopeless. The soundtrack brought me back this particular rewatch- You Strutted and Fretted Across came on and I was immediately transported to the freezing cold streets of Toronto.

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  Review by Paul Anthony Johnson ★

  Dickens goes grotty, for millennial chuckles. Hardcore, man. Hardcore. Twit for twit, the dumbest Dickens adaptation this side of 'Oliver!'

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  Review by James Scott

  A younger me would have swallowed this whole.

  Now I have some misgivings about the heroin-chic and some of the heavier plot beats (that stray towards misery porn). 

  Tierney really understands his source. Not only are there many nods to more obscure elements of the book, the most important themes are really beautifully transposed despite stark deviations in the plot. 

  The end is much sadder (mebbe too sad)? Very much of its time. 

  Moments that I thought rang really true to Chucky D:
  - Nancy trying to get Oliver to understand that he doesn’t really owe anything to the gang. They didn’t do him any favours and acted in their own interest. And despite her having this insight for him,…

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  Review by Josh ★★★★

  God this movie was sad af. It literally will make your stomach hurt. Nick Stahl is as talented as ever.