The Goldfinch
Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman star in this coming-of-age drama based on Donna Tartt's novel, set following a bombing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Left motherless after the disaster, a young boy is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family. From the director of Brooklyn.
- Director:
- John Crowley ('Brooklyn', 'Boy A', 'Intermission')
- Writer:
- Peter Straughan
- Cast:
- Ansel ElgortFinn WolfhardAneurin BarnardOakes FegleyAshleigh CummingsWilla FitzgeraldNicole KidmanJeffrey WrightLuke WilsonSarah Paulson
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksIf you’ve not read Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning coming-of-age tale, then you’ll likely enjoy this big-screen version more than those who have. It’s a pretty faithful adaptation, but despite the 150-minute run-time, it’s hard to squeeze in, let alone justify, every narrative twist, turn and somersault through time. Not that Brooklyn director John Crowley, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy screenwriter, Peter Straughton, deliver a bad film, it just lacks the intimate immediacy and detailed depth of the source material.
Stuff
pressPut it in the box labelled "save your money and just read the book again", along with The Lovely Bones, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and a dozen others you can probably name off the top of your head.
Time Out
pressIt's terrible when a beloved novel arrives onscreen with a self-important thud, and that's putting it diplomatically in the case of The Goldfinch.
Vanity Fair
pressThe Goldfinch is better than I expected it would be. And yet in clearing that bar, it bares open all the possibility that it could have been even more.
The Guardian
pressIt's neither a rousing success nor an embarrassing failure, falling somewhere in between, closer to admirable attempt.
Hollywood Reporter
pressUnlike the tiny painting that gave the book its name, the film deserves a more expansive canvas.
Variety
pressYet a morose and downbeat movie, too lost in the maze of its designer seriousness, is what "The Goldfinch" finally is.
Flicks, Adam Fresco
flicksIf you’ve not read Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning coming-of-age tale, then you’ll likely enjoy this big-screen version more than those who have. It’s a pretty faithful adaptation, but despite the 150-minute run-time, it’s hard to squeeze in, let alone justify, every narrative twist, turn and somersault through time. Not that Brooklyn director John Crowley, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy screenwriter, Peter Straughton, deliver a bad film, it just lacks the intimate immediacy and detailed depth of the source material.
Stuff
pressPut it in the box labelled "save your money and just read the book again", along with The Lovely Bones, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and a dozen others you can probably name off the top of your head.
Time Out
pressIt's terrible when a beloved novel arrives onscreen with a self-important thud, and that's putting it diplomatically in the case of The Goldfinch.
Vanity Fair
pressThe Goldfinch is better than I expected it would be. And yet in clearing that bar, it bares open all the possibility that it could have been even more.
The Guardian
pressIt's neither a rousing success nor an embarrassing failure, falling somewhere in between, closer to admirable attempt.
Hollywood Reporter
pressUnlike the tiny painting that gave the book its name, the film deserves a more expansive canvas.
Variety
pressYet a morose and downbeat movie, too lost in the maze of its designer seriousness, is what "The Goldfinch" finally is.
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