Goldfinch,The

After his divorced mother (Hailey Wist) is killed during a bombing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and a 13-year-old boy (Oakes Fegley) ends up taking a famous painting of a chained bird that will come back to haunt him as an adult (Ansel Elgort) in this captivating, superbly acted, thought-provoking, well-paced, unpredictable, star-studded (Jeffrey Wright, Denis O'Hare, Willa Fitzgerald, Ashleigh Cummings, Aneurin Barnard, Robert Joy, Luke Kleintank, and Kevin Owen McDonald), 149-minute film based on Pulitzer-Prize-winning Donna Tartt's bestselling novel and told in flashbacks, he initially goes to live with a wealthy couple (Nicole Kidman and Boyd Gaines) and their children (Ryan Foust, Jack DiFalco, Carly Connors, and Austin Weyant) until his estranged, alcoholic father (Luke Wilson) and his bombshell hooker girlfriend (Sarah Paulson) move him to Las Vegas where the friendship he makes with an abused Ukrainian student (Finn Wolfhard) brings with it a surprising twist eight years later.
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