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The Goldfinch

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• Crime/detective
• Drama

• 2019
• John Crowley
• 149 mins
• 15

Summary

A boy in New York is taken in by a rich Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Director John Crowley's drama based on the Donna Tartt novel, starring Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman and Jeffrey Wright

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Karen Krizanovich

This adaptation of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel just goes to show that a great pedigree doesn't always make a great movie. Directed John Crowley (Brooklyn), the film charts the life of Theo, a young New Yorker who loses his mother in a museum bombing incident and is taken in by Nicole Kidman's wealthy family. He's then claimed by his estranged father (Luke Wilson), who promptly plunks the lad in the Nevada desert with a Russian ne'er-do-well (Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard). It's lusciously shot by master lensman Roger Deakins, but the sparks of a great film soon sink into a slurry of slow exposition and random events. Theo's education in antique furniture restoration by a Greenwich Village dealer (the exquisite Jeffrey Wright) is a fascinating interlude, while Oakes Fegley and Ansel Elgort both shine in the leading role. However, there's no escaping the fact that there's something here. Genuine feeling, perhaps?

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6.4/10

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Cast

rolenameTheodore "Theo" DeckerAnsel ElgortXandraSarah PaulsonMrs BarbourNicole KidmanBoris PavlikovskyAneurin BarnardLarry DeckerLuke WilsonYoung Theodore DeckerOakes FegleyYoung BorisFinn WolfhardJames "Hobie" HobartJeffrey WrightPippaAshleigh CummingsLucius ReeveDenis O'HareKitsey BarbourWilla Fitzgerald

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rolenameDirectorJohn Crowley

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Theatrical distributor

Warner Bros

Released on

2019-09-27

Languages

English | German | Ukrainian | French

Guidance

Swearing, drug abuse

Formats

Colour

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