The New York Times
For a story about sex, murder, family secrets and class resentments, the temperature is awfully mild, as if a Tennessee Williams play had been sent to Nicholas Sparks for a rewrite.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) leads this mystery drama as a woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South and is now the prime suspect in her ex-boyfriend's murder. From the director of First Match adapting the best-selling novel by Delia Owens.
2022Rating: 15, sexual violence, domestic abuse125 minsUSASony Pictures
Drama
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The Guardian
A lot of this gutless, often silly, film’s issues are the book’s, beautifully realised and thus reified...
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A.V. Club
Newman’s film gets enough right to be just as solid as a summer cinematic distraction as Owens’ book was as beachside literature.
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The Times
(Edgar-Jones is) in a league of her own. She’s better than everyone around her. And she’s certainly better than this muddled effort.
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IndieWire
Where the Crawdads Sing works best when it embraces its own true nature as a popcorn movie.
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Slash Film
The film is a self-serious, but consciously aesthetically pleasing, adaptation of a, frankly, silly soap opera.
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Los Angeles Times
It feels exceedingly rushed, as the actors hit their marks and deliver their monologues with a sense of obligation to moving the plot along rather than developing character.
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Paste
Newman’s work adapting (the book) makes its derivative elements as obvious as a bad accent, but its chart-topping, tone-deaf mediocrity is faithfully replicated.
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Screen Daily
The film tends toward cliche, packed with underdeveloped performances and unearned plot twists.
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Collider
Where the Crawdads Sing is a weirdly uncomfortable movie, on many different levels.
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Hollywood Reporter
Kya’s beauty and delicateness are so over-emphasized that she comes off more manic pixie dream girl than misanthropic protagonist.
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Where the Crawdads Sing is now playing in 533 cinemas in the United Kingdom.