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Oliver! (1968) Rank 3 Reviews
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filmcritic.com
1968's Best Picture winner is an epic musical familiar to all of us -- even if you haven't actually seen it. "Food, Glorious Food!"... "Consider Yourself"... these are songs that have entered into the collective consciousness of filmgoers everywhere. And ...read the complete Oliver! movie review at filmcritic.com
DVD Talk (Stuart Galbraith IV)
In a year that produced Bergman's Shame, Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Cassavetes' Faces, the Academy Award for Best Picture went instead to the handsomely produced crowd-pleaser Oliver! (1968), a film version ...read the complete Oliver! movie review at DVD Talk (Stuart Galbraith IV)
Time Out (--)
Reed is craftsman enough to make an efficient family entertainment out of Lionel Bart's musical, but not artist enough to put back any of Dickens' teeth which Bart had so assiduously drawn. ...read the complete Oliver! movie review at Time Out (--)
Parent/Teacher Learning Guides at teachwithmovies.org
"Oliver!" is a musical version of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens' classic tale of life among the poor and criminal elements in London during the early nineteenth century. One subplot of the story involves a young woman who is beaten and killed by her boyfr ...read the complete Oliver! movie review at Parent/Teacher Learning Guides at teachwithmovies.org
Film Freak Central Review (Travis Mackenzie Hoover)
Virtually every other filmmaker of the era would have started in a workhouse and lingered there to bend perceptions and expose budgets--but there's the humble room, with the boys mechanically trudging to gruel and singing "Food, Glorious Food." It's a nic ...read the complete Oliver! movie review at Film Freak Central Review (Travis Mackenzie Hoover)
DVD MovieGuide
As I recall, I took in a screening of Oliver! as a very young child, and it was something I'd remembered semi-positively, largely because my father thought it was such a great movie. I didn't see it again until it was shown to us during my eighth grade En ...read the complete Oliver! movie review at DVD MovieGuide
MediaScreen.com
This is a very stoic, stagy and rather dry musical that may capture the essence of Dickens in its settings characters and plot but seems totally out of touch with the effervescence of the traditional Hollywood musical. Even with such main staple songs as ...read the complete Oliver! movie review at MediaScreen.com
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
The stage musical of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist received six Oscars for this film adaptation. Tunes include "Consider Yourself" and "As Long as He Needs Me." (The Saturday Morning Film Club continues every last Saturday of each month and is ...read the complete Oliver! movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
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