The long-awaited movie of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is here in a very messy, trying-too-hard, but at least very well-acted and gorgeous-looking adaptation from John Crowley (Brooklyn). The Goldfinch premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and opens this week. My review is at Slant: Streamlined by Peter Straughan from Donna Tartt’s overwrought Pulitzer-winning 2013 novel …
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Published on September 10, 2019 19:07