Oliver Twist ends up under the care of the people he was supposed to rob: Miss Rose and her guardian Mrs Maylie. The mysterious man Monks plots with Fagin to destroy Oliver's reputation. Monks denounces Fagin's failure to turn Oliver into a criminal, and the two of them agree on a plan to make sure he does not find out about his past. Monks is apparently related to Oliver in some way. Back in Oliver's hometown, Mr Bumble has married Mrs Corney, the matron of the workhouse where the story first began, only to find himself in an unhappy marriage, constantly arguing
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