Ansel Elgort & His Oscar Bait Film 'The Goldfinch' Getting BRUTALIZED By Critics!

Every year, dozens of movies get bad write ups, but there’s always one that draws such ire from critics it almost seems like they’re relishing injecting their full venom into biting reviews.

Sadly, this year’s appears to be Ansel Elgort’s new Oscar bait-y film The Goldfinch.

The embargo on reviews was lifted shortly after the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. While several have acknowledged the adaptation of Donna Tartt’s blockbuster novel of the same name was beautifully shot by director John Crowley, most agree in every other regard The Goldfinch fell flat on its hind feathers!

Collider’s Matt Goldberg called the film “shockingly bad” and “one of the worst movies [he’s] seen all year,” while The Wrap’s Yolanda Machchado offered this review:

“Ugh. THE GOLDFINCH was so bland and boring, I just. I really can’t say much other than nothing happens for almost 2 hrs, then everything happens at once but it’s so disconnected that it evokes no feeling. #TIFF19”

Meanwhile, David Ehlrich of IndieWire had this to say about the film — which is as of this writing at a lowly 27% on Rotten Tomatoes:

“Sure to disappoint anyone who watches it with great expectations, this moribund adaptation… [is] a lifeless film that doesn’t consist of scenes so much as it does an awkward jumble of other, smaller problems stacked on top of each other like kids inside a trench coat.”

Ouch!

Also, great imagery.

Critics didn’t find everything about the film disappointing: many applauded Nicole Kidman’s understated (obviously) performance as the sensitive mother of the protagonist’s best friend.

However, The Fault In Our Stars actor’s performance isn’t getting much love.

Jason Bailey from The Playlist gave an extraordinarily scathing review of Ansel’s acting skills, writing:

“At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, Ansel Elgort cannot really act. In most of his work, that doesn’t matter much; he’s a perfectly adequate Unthreateningly Handsome Teen in something like Divergent or The Fault in Our Stars, and in Baby Driver, he’s basically a puppet in the hands of a stylish director who’s figured out how to manipulate him into something resembling a human being.”

Whut…

https://giphy.com/gifs/savage-supa-hot-fire-super-xT9IgMw9fhuEGUaJqg

But it’s not even over…

“Alas, that won’t do in The Goldfinch, the new adaption of Donna Tartt’s novel from director John Crowley (Brooklyn). Elgort is insufferably miscast as the story’s protagonist, Theodore Decker; we’re told he’s a dashing, knowledgeable antique furniture salesman with a dark past and secrets a-plenty, but he looks like a kid in a high school play who borrowed his dad’s glasses and suit in a failed attempt to look like a grown-up.”

Yeesh… sounds like this film ended up being Razzie bait! LOLz!

For those who aren’t discouraged by these reviews, The Goldfinch hits theaters on September 13. Ch-ch-check out the trailer (below)!