“The Goldfinch” (** out of four) was a heavy-handed adaptation of Donna Tartt’s 2013 best-selling novel about a young man (Ansel Egort) whose mother is killed in a bombing at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art and he escapes only with a valuable painting called The Goldfinch which he leans on emotionally and financially through adolescence. Well-directed by John Crowley and features a few interesting dramatic scenes but overlong, weird, and never terribly moving. Luke Wilson and Nicole Kidman stand-out in minor supporting roles.

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