The Twits
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 17, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
3
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Screen RantGregory NussenOct 16, 2025
While the film may thematically point to real-world struggles in the United States, The Twits is mostly an accessible story about the power of empathy in the face of naked evil, all to the tune of about a thousand fart jokes. Read full review
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ColliderLuna GuthrieOct 20, 2025
It's funny, it's zany, it looks good, and has some really great character work going for it, but it probably would have turned out better as a product of the 20th century. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 16, 2025
There’s humor in every detail, much of it skewing to the sordid, if not downright scatological, end of the spectrum, from exploding buttocks to anthropomorphic hairballs. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 17, 2025
There is a sense at times that Johnston has over-compensated for Dahl’s cynicism with his wondrous children and their magical friends, and a bit too much of “The Twits” feels like it desperately wants us to love Beesha and Bubsy, even if they’re kind of shallowly conceived and designed. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterRichard LawsonOct 16, 2025
That the film has such a strong, timely moral argument makes one reconsider its creative merits. Read full review
40
The GuardianCath ClarkeOct 15, 2025
Any of Dahl’s gruesome sense of fun is obliterated by a bulldozing message of empathy and kindness, thanks to a plucky orphan Beesha (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and her pals pulling together an opposition to the Twits. This is vile and revolting in all the wrong ways. Read full review
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TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 15, 2025
Set aside for a moment that the movie is literally hard to look at: it’s also tonally chaotic, and repeatedly trips over its own unspeakable horrors, before falling face-first into bowls of insufferable sugar. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubJacob OllerOct 17, 2025
The Twits is exactly what one might imagine a Netflix Dahl adaptation to be: Diluted, simplistic animation, as cloying and feckless and smoothed over as anything from the last decade of Illumination films. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinOct 16, 2025
If you don’t actually want to make a film out of a Roald Dahl book, this critic’s advice is: don’t. Read full review
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