Film: The Goldfinch
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson
Director: John Crowley
Writer: Peter Straughan
Rating: 
Runtime: 149 min

John Crowley's "The Goldfinch," maybe an epic effort to adapt Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize winner but the film fails to get friendly with the true essence and heart of that telling. The plotting is pretty much faithful but the treatment leaves a lot to be desired.

Tartt's book is a nuanced, descriptive experience about the human condition when sudden trauma and grief derail life's trajectory but Crowley's film doesn't appear to get that.