Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) by David Fear for Rolling Stone — 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 momentum — sudden violence! love triangles! plot surprises! incredibly photorealistic sketches of shells! — there doesn’t seem to be much of a spark in the engine powering these narrative turns.
Can a movie be both hyperventilating and lackluster at the same time?
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This review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) was written by David Fear and published by Rolling Stone on 13 Jul 2022.
Where the Crawdads Sing has generally received positive reviews.
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