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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Jul 2022

Thanks in large part to the beautiful work by Daisy Edgar-Jones and the consistently stunning visuals, Where the Crawdads Sing provides just…

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By Jenny Nulf (101) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 14 Jul 2022

Edgar-Jones’ easygoing allure isn’t enough to bind Where the Crawdads Sing together, though, leaving the film a generic, dull outing…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 14 Jul 2022

Providing a hint of redemption is Edgar-Jones, a naturally vulnerable actress who can turn the shallowest of material into something deep…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 13 Jul 2022

Newman’s direction maintains the mystery through the gasps and sneers from the gallery during the trial sequences, leading to the eventual…

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By Pat Padua (495) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Jul 2022

It’s Southern-fried “The Blue Lagoon” meets “Murder, She Wrote” — and topped off with a sprinkling of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”…

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By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for The Associated Press (882) on 13 Jul 2022

All the buzz and talent around a tale that’s sold more than 12 million copies can’t thoroughly mask a sometimes corny, often clunky script,…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Jul 2022

Though it is faithful, Where the Crawdads Sing is lacking the essential character and storytelling connective tissue that makes a story like…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 Jul 2022

While director Olivia Newman (First Match) and screenwriter Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild) retain the book’s breathless, beach-read…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 13 Jul 2022

Where the Crawdads Sing, based on Delia Owens’s best-selling novel, is long on setting and atmosphere…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jul 2022

The film spins a soapy yet dramatically inert and often tone-deaf yarn about societal rejection and female empowerment in the wetlands of North…

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By Liz Shannon Miller (69) for Consequence (296) on 12 Jul 2022

The bluntness of its messaging proves to be a bit of a detraction, but the fact remains that Where the Crawdads Sing is a heartfelt, and gorgeous…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jul 2022

Where the Crawdads Sing is at once a mystery, a romance, a back-to-nature reverie full of gnarled trees and hanging moss, and a parable of…

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By Leigh Monson (105) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Jul 2022

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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By Hoai-Tran Bui (110) for Slashfilm (971) on 12 Jul 2022

The film is a self-serious, but consciously aesthetically pleasing, adaptation of a, frankly, silly soap opera…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Jul 2022

The film is neither heartbreaking nor thrilling, often feeling like a blown-up version of a Hallmark flick-of-the-week, its ambitions far greater…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 12 Jul 2022

That it’s able to split the difference between Nicholas Sparks and “Nell” with any measure of believability is a testament to Daisy Edgar-Jones’…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 12 Jul 2022

Daisy Edgar-Jones is affecting and effective as Kya, known to redneck townsfolk as “The Marsh Girl.” If only the filmmaking and screenwriting…

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By Rachel Labonte (78) for Screen Rant (892) on 12 Jul 2022

Where the Crawdads Sing stumbles a bit in its transition from page to screen, though it is aided by a great lead performance…

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By Jacob Oller (247) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 12 Jul 2022

Where the Crawdads Sing is shallow, predictable and just broad enough that you can understand why it sold so well as a half-lurid paperback…

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By Brianna Zigler (58) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Jul 2022

There is minimal tension in spite of clear stakes, but because we never get closer to Kya than arm’s length, it never seems like she’s…

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