A flat and lumbering albeit beautifully filmed drama that bores more than it entertains.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2019

It's all poeticism without a sense of humanity, since the characters themselves aren't written as people, but as broad statements.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2019

Whether or not you've read the book, the film of The Goldfinch is definitely worth a look; it's no masterpiece but it's a whole heap better than many of the studio-made American films released so far this year.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 5, 2019

I sat there, watching and thinking, "there are so many good things in this, yet none of them are touching me in the slightest." I was bored, and that's almost the most damning thing. Considerably less than the sum of its parts.

| Oct 3, 2019

A beautifully shot mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2019

There is no sense of pace or mystery, but rather an evident need to get through Tartt's dense plotting in the two-and-a-half-hour run time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2019

The Goldfinch is dull, shapeless and unconvincing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2019

A cool sterility lingers beneath every cue meant to tug at our insides.

| Sep 27, 2019

In abandoning the strict linearity of Tartt's story, the film may replicate Theo's stream of consciousness, but it's at the cost of narrative rhythm and Stevensonian electricity.

| Sep 27, 2019

It is, indeed, beautiful to look at, but it's not layered or textured or meaningful and it plays like a tiresome, empty blockbuster that goes on and on and on.

| Sep 26, 2019

Ah, poor wussums. The Goldfinch is the kind of movie that you want to pick up and cuddle, and stroke its befuddled head, and say: "There, there, it's all right, you did your best.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Tartt's book has been put through a grater, then reassembled into a wet prestige patty of a picture, all dainty set dressing and limp psychology.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Maybe it would have worked better as an eight-part 온라인카지노추천 drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2019

Everything, I'm sure, stands for something; except the audience, which wilts horizontally in its seats. I'll have to read the novel.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2019

The Goldfinch is an unmistakable fiasco, pretentious and incoherent even on its own terms.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2019

Frankly, you might have more fun watching a pigeon for 149 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2019

The Goldfinch isn't a filmmaking travesty, but it is a mess, a movie trying so hard to be prestigious that it fails to be anything at all.

| Sep 19, 2019

An enthralling story on the page, this adaptation fails to capture what good adaptations can: the heart and spirit of a story told in another medium.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 19, 2019

Veteran actor Jeffrey Wright gives the only spot-on performance, but even he can't save a silly storyline from itself.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 16, 2019

Simultaneously overlong and yet not enough.

| Sep 16, 2019