Synopsis
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
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Cast
- Ansel ElgortTheodore Decker
- Oakes FegleyYoung Theodore Decker
- Nicole KidmanSamantha Barbour
- Jeffrey WrightJames 'Hobie' Hobart
- Luke WilsonLarry Decker
- Sarah PaulsonXandra
- Willa FitzgeraldKitsey Barbour
- Aneurin BarnardBoris Pavlikovsky
- Finn WolfhardYoung Boris Pavlikovsky
- Ashleigh CummingsPippa
Recommendations
- 70
IGN
Theo is an engaging character – for the most part well played – and his journey is both entertaining and heartbreaking. Meaning much like the painting at the centre of this tale, Theo’s story both survives, and endures. despite the fragmented film’s shortcomings. - 63
Slant Magazine
Enough of the individual moments pulled from the rag-and-bone shop of Donna Tartt’s sprawling mystery narrative make an emotional impact that the story’s structural issues fail to register as much at first. - 60
The Guardian
It’s neither a rousing success nor an embarrassing failure, falling somewhere in between, closer to admirable attempt. - 58
Vanity Fair
I wish all of Tartt’s tender and moving allegory—the way she pours the density of growth and regret into a solid thing that can pass hands—had space to bloom in the film. It doesn’t, and I left the film appreciative of its style and strong performances, but not emotionally altered in any lingering way. - 50
USA Today
It’s a lot of soapy melodrama and underdeveloped characters that never really go anywhere. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
In the end, there’s too much good stuff missing and yet not enough to serve as a satisfying meal. - 50
Variety
What you experience isn’t the book, exactly; it’s the strenuous creative labor that went into adapting it. What cast a winding spell on the page has become an occasionally compelling but mostly labored live-action illustration. - 42
The Playlist
Perhaps the pieces could have held together with the right leading man as glue. Elgort is, assuredly, not that.
