13-year-old New Yorker Theo Decker's life is turned upside-down when his mother is killed in a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Confused in the rubble of the tragedy, he steals a priceless piece of art known as The Goldfinch.... (Full plot summary below)
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13-year-old New Yorker Theo Decker's life is turned upside-down when his mother is killed in a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Confused in the rubble of the tragedy, he steals a priceless piece of art known as The Goldfinch.
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| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattThe Goldfinch feels like more than the sum of its disparate parts; a painting in the wrong frame, maybe, but one whose imperfect beauty still draws you in. |
| IGNChris TillyTheo 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. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranWhile the result is not flawless, this is a polished, impressive attempt that pays off in the end. It may take awhile to get there, but its themes of loss, longing, heartache and betrayal, not to mention the nature and value of beautiful objects, do ultimately move us. |
| The Associated PressLindsey BahrThe Goldfinch is stoic and sad, occasionally brilliant and more often confusing. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreWe few, we not-easily-bored few, can catch “The Goldfinch” in a theater and revel in unerringly modulated performances — everybody is so softspoken that the verbal explosions have alarming violence about them — and a world we might envy, or at least resent a little bit. |
| The GuardianBenjamin LeeIt’s neither a rousing success nor an embarrassing failure, falling somewhere in between, closer to admirable attempt. |
| Slant MagazineChris BarsantiEnough 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. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe Goldfinch is too artful to deserve that kind of rejection, but too arty to keep you from saying, “What did I just see?” |
| Vanity FairRichard LawsonI 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. |
| The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldThe Goldfinch feels like a series of often-elegant moments, in service to a story that never quite comes into focus. |
