5/30/2023 0 Comments Object Lessons by Lorin Stein![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the reason The Goldfinch doesn’t work on the screen is that it doesn’t really work on the page either. The problem is not just that The Goldfinch doesn’t work on the screen. At Vox, film critic Alissa Wilkinson concluded that the story simply “doesn’t work on screen.” And critics were no kinder than the box office currently, The Goldfinch has a rating of 27 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The Goldfinch made just $2.6 million in its opening weekend, the sixth-worst opening of all time for a movie opening on more than 2,500 different screens, which is an especially disastrous beginning given that it cost $45 million to make. Two weeks ago, The Goldfinch - the new movie based on Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel - arrived in theaters and immediately, catastrophically, flopped. ![]()
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