The Goldfinch, the movie adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend to a warm round of boos from film critics. The cast—Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright, Ansel Elgort in glasses, and one of the Stranger Things’ boys—apparently wasn’t enough to save the film from being “lifeless” and maybe even the worst movie of the year.
is about “a young man navigating a Dickensian life after the tragic death of his mother, all while harboring an increasingly dangerous secret.
”“a lifeless film that doesn’t consist of scenes so much as it does an awkward jumble of other, smaller problems stacked on top of each other like kids inside a trench coat.” was similarly ungenerous, describing it as a “vapid prestige picture” and a “cold, heartless, sterile look at survivor’s guilt in the face of senseless tragedy.
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