Tom Kalin’s first feature since 1992’s Swoon is a dull pastiche about the life and murder of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland.
Julianne Moore does not settle for facile vamping, conveying a chilling combativeness and tragic sense of emotional resignation.
Framed along severe diagonal lines, Oliver Twist’s visual precision is startling, and this transfer does remarkable justice to it.
This Oliver Twist isn’t the nasty affair that Roman Polanski fans might be hoping for.