Martin’s entire “A Song of Ice and Fire” saga just to watch “Game of Thrones” guilt-free. The more sophisticated the source material, the stronger the obligation felt: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “Gone Girl” were mere airport novels, I told myself, so no pressure there, and I certainly wasn’t going to parse George R.R. Having studied literature at the same small college Tartt attended before going for a master’s in film studies, I wasn’t exactly new to this conflict: I’d previously read “No Country for Old Men” and the fourth “Harry Potter” book just in time to watch their respective film adaptations. In starting what was sure to be a long process for this slow reader - taken together, the two works are just under 2,000 pages - I began to question the impulses behind it. 2017’s adaptation of the first half of “It,” which went on to become the highest-grossing horror movie of all time, surely generated more interest in what was already a bestseller Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for her third novel, while the likes of Nicole Kidman, Ansel Elgort, Jeffrey Wright, Finn Wolfhard and Luke Wilson all lend star power to a prestige picture being helmed by “Brooklyn” director John Crowley. “Goldfinch” review: The pleasures of this book-to-film production are quiet but real. Movies Review: ‘The Goldfinch’ sings its own tune in its own sweet time
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