Oliver Twist (2005 film) is furious at Nancy's betrayal, and brutally beats her to death in their apartment. The next day, information about Oliver and Fagin appear in the newspaper, along with Nancy's murder and the fact that Sikes is a suspect. Sikes's ever-present dog, Bullseye, is a dead giveaway to his identity. After unsuccessfully trying to kill the dog, Sikes takes up residence with Toby Crackit. Fagin, Oliver, and the boys are hiding there too, after escaping their previous location before the police could find it. Bullseye escapes his master's cruelty, and leads a group of police and locals to the group's hideout.
Oliver Twist (2005 film) "visually exact and detailed without being too picturesque." Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" praised it as a "grounded and unusually matter-of-fact adaptation," continuing, "Polanski does justice to Dickens' moral universe, in which the motives and worldview of even the worst people are made comprehensible." Lisa Schwarzbaum of "Entertainment Weekly" graded the film B+ and commented, "On the face of it, Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" is in the tradition of every faithful "Oliver Twist" ever filmed — a photogenic, straightforward, CliffsNotes staging of Charles Dickens' harrowing story... Yet precisely because this is by Roman Polanski, it's irresistible to read