The Goldfinch

But it’s just too damn pokey at 149 minutes, each of them reminding us that this is a stately Literary Adaptation in a way that Crowley’s “Brooklyn” mostly decidedly was not. Perhaps the pieces could have held together with the right leading man as glue. Elgort is, assuredly, not that.

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An elegantly made attempt to transport the Pulitzer prize-winning novel to the screen boasts a strong cast but a confused emotional focus

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Don’t be fooled by its polish—The Goldfinch is a phony imitation of a prestige drama

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'The Goldfinch' feels like an attractive forgery rather than a real masterwork

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John Crowley's adaptation of the sprawling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Donna Tartt novel features a starry ensemble including Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman and Sarah Paulson.

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The Goldfinch is both too long and too short; dull to watch but scanty on the details about logistics, character, and just how anything of note actually occurs. The mystery of the film is something to be endured, rather than solved. But the real mystery is our leading man. We never know who Theo is as an adult, or if we’re on his side, or why we should care.

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Even a roster of top-notch stars can’t save the screen adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

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This year's prestige cinematic literary adaptation is a version of Donna Tartt's 2013 novel about art, terrorism, and a lost boy growing up that's scrupulously faithful, yet still misses the book's captivating essence.

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Toronto Film Festival 2019: It’s easier to cover this much ground in 784 pages than in a 2-hour-and-29-minute running time that begins to feel exhausting well before it ends

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When a young man’s life is torn apart by an explosion at an art gallery, he tries to find peace and figure out his future. But taking shortcuts at his new job puts him on a dangerous course, threatening to uncover the secret he’s been hiding for years.

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The Goldfinch Is a Handsome Movie, But It Lies Flat as a Painting

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Nicole Kidman’s fine cameo cannot save an infuriating adaptation that renders a complex novel in broad brushstrokes

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Just because something works in one medium doesn’t mean it automatically will in another.

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But despite Deakins’ touch, The Goldfinch is a haphazard attempt at taking an award-winning novel and spinning it into a grab for the gold ring (or statue).

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Donna Tartt’s best-selling novel gets a long, lavish adaptation, starring Nicole Kidman and Ansel Elgort.

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Overstuffed, overlong and utterly uninvolving, this is a movie that feels as morbidly trapped as the poor little bird of its title. Rather than spread its wings and fly free, it stays frustratingly, eternally inert.

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“The Goldfinch” should be called “CliffsNotes: The Movie,” because after seeing this pedantic film adaptation, I now know all 3 billion plot points of Donna Tartt’s acclaimed 2013 novel. And, like skimming a colorless cheat sheet, I still have no clue what’s so great about it.

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The only achievement in transferring Donna Tartt’s ‘The Goldfinch’ from page to screen is that it’s a botch job for the ages.

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