This year's prestige cinematic literary adaptation is a version of Donna Tartt's 2013 novel about art, terrorism, and a lost boy growing up that's scrupulously faithful, yet still misses the book's ...
"The Goldfinch" has a painting at its center, but despite a classy palette of ingredients conjures a lifeless, disjointed picture. Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the movie represents a ...
“Conclave” is an extremely faithful adaptation of Robert Harris’s compact 2016 novel, with only some names and personages reshuffled for the film version. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is a man of ...
Some books are best left as books. Case in point: Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch.” Slow, often boring and frequently forgettable, the film version doesn’t live up to its Pulitzer Prize-winning origins.
The literary world has been engaged in a hearty dialogue over the merits and deficiencies of Donna Tartt’s massive novel The Goldfinch, which spent more than 30 weeks on The New York Times best-seller ...
Spoiler Alert: This article discusses major plot points and character arcs from The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Source: AS Project / Shutterstock What does it look like to live inside a shattered self?