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This week's movies - 800 screens: Oliver Twist - 53% positive reviews. The reviews can be summed up in one word - (Cue JoAnn Worley) - "BORRRRRRRRRRING!"

• "A work of craft that could be flying the Masterpiece Theatre banner. You know, an earnestly worthy adaptation of a literary classic, as faithful and polished as it is ponderous and unprovocative."
• "acceptable yet thoroughly uninspiring"
• "A version of Oliver that's so safe, it's pretty much a case of baby-sitting.
• "probably the most faithful adaptation. But hardly anyone will take notice; it's just a tale that's been told too many times before."