"The Goldfinch" (in theaters now): Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel "The Goldfinch" is beloved, but the film adaptation, starring Nicole Kidman and Ansel Elgort, made just $2.6 million in its first weekend at the box office and critics panned it with a 27% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (USA TODAY critic Brian Truitt called it
"a messy jumble of a drama.") The story follows 13-year-old Theo Decker, who is essentially orphaned after surviving a deadly explosion at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the years that follow, adult Theo keeps a major secret: He's in possession of “The Goldfinch,” a famous Dutch painting that he retrieved from the ruins.
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