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Beautifully filmed yet mostly inert, The Goldfinch mishandles its source material, flattening a complex narrative into a largely uninvolving disappointment.
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Simultaneously overlong and yet not enough. Sep 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Simultaneously overlong and yet not enough.
Christy Lemire
This sprawling yet rushed adaptation of Donna Tartt's novel is textureless and flavorless. Sep 16, 2019 | Full Review…
This sprawling yet rushed adaptation of Donna Tartt's novel is textureless and flavorless.
Richard Brody
The film suffers from both an excessive faithfulness to its source and a general failure to translate that material into anything close to a gripping onscreen narrative. Sep 15, 2019 | Full Review…
The film suffers from both an excessive faithfulness to its source and a general failure to translate that material into anything close to a gripping onscreen narrative.
David Sims
It's an object lesson in what not to do in an adaptation, yet it's occasionally effective enough that you can see a much more successful movie buried within it. Sep 13, 2019 | Full Review…
It's an object lesson in what not to do in an adaptation, yet it's occasionally effective enough that you can see a much more successful movie buried within it.
Stephanie Zacharek
The film grows more florid and dramatic as it unfolds, and more disjointed; even with reliable actors like Elgort, Wright, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, and Luke Wilson on hand, the storytelling feels clunky in a way Brooklyn never did. Sep 13, 2019 | Full Review…
The film grows more florid and dramatic as it unfolds, and more disjointed; even with reliable actors like Elgort, Wright, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, and Luke Wilson on hand, the storytelling feels clunky in a way Brooklyn never did.
Steve Pond
The movie represents a transparent bid to bring the book's prestige to the screen, but it's another case of literary underpinnings being lost in translation. Sep 13, 2019 | Full Review…
The movie represents a transparent bid to bring the book's prestige to the screen, but it's another case of literary underpinnings being lost in translation.
Brian Lowry
It's one thing to get all those things in a big, juicy novel. This attempt to stuff them all into a movie, even one that clocks in at 149 minutes, ends up feeling rushed, shallow, sometimes even a bit silly. Sep 16, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It's one thing to get all those things in a big, juicy novel. This attempt to stuff them all into a movie, even one that clocks in at 149 minutes, ends up feeling rushed, shallow, sometimes even a bit silly.
Alison Gillmor
Veteran actor Jeffrey Wright gives the only spot-on performance, but even he can't save a silly storyline from itself. Sep 16, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Veteran actor Jeffrey Wright gives the only spot-on performance, but even he can't save a silly storyline from itself.
Dwight Brown
The movie adheres to the book to its detriment, resulting in this futile, deathly dull exercise in translation-as-filmmaking. The Goldfinch isn't so much a movie as it is a very expensive book report. Sep 16, 2019 | Full Review…
The movie adheres to the book to its detriment, resulting in this futile, deathly dull exercise in translation-as-filmmaking. The Goldfinch isn't so much a movie as it is a very expensive book report.
Ned Lannamann
On a storytelling level, The Goldfinch is both confusing in its structure and boring in its execution. Sep 16, 2019 | Rating: 2/10 | Full Review…
On a storytelling level, The Goldfinch is both confusing in its structure and boring in its execution.
Jon Winkler
There was not one moment in this whole lethargic exercise - no line of dialogue, or performance, or visual - which resonated even one mote. This film lacked heart, and even worse, it lacked brevity. Sep 16, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
There was not one moment in this whole lethargic exercise - no line of dialogue, or performance, or visual - which resonated even one mote. This film lacked heart, and even worse, it lacked brevity.
Di Golding
The Goldfinch boasts a number of noteworthy performances... but unless one comes in predisposed to invest, it's neither a moving dramatic experience nor a satisfying thriller. Sep 16, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The Goldfinch boasts a number of noteworthy performances... but unless one comes in predisposed to invest, it's neither a moving dramatic experience nor a satisfying thriller.
Abbie Bernstein
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