Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) by Rivercitynole — 10 Jan 2023

I enjoyed this one! The movie had me guessing the whole time I was watching it. When I thought I had it all figured out I would find out.

This review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) was written by Rivercitynole on 10 Jan 2023.

Where the Crawdads Sing has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Where the Crawdads Sing

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Murrayt57 (20) on 19 Jul 2022

I don't know if there's ever been this much of a disconnect between the media reviewers and the rest of us. I absolutely loved it…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Dunkaccino (158) on 30 Nov 2022

Where the Crawdads Sing is lucky it has astounding visuals preventing it from being an unwatchable melodramatic bore…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Vacamente (2) on 10 Aug 2022

Intense and beautiful! Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Kai in such a inspiring way…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Robomartion (22) on 22 Jul 2022

Reviewers saying the girl is not scruffy enough are stupid. I'm sure she could work out how to take a swim by the time she was an adult…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Serengeti (21) on 18 Aug 2022

This was an excellent movie! I loved the characters and the setting, which was a character unto itself…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Dupreehere (1) on 10 Sep 2022

This movie exceed my expectations and not as bad as critics rate it…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Clarisse Loughrey (259) for The Independent (259) on 22 Jul 2022

Does the fact the film largely ignores the book’s treatise on nature and virtue absolve it of all connections to Owens’s real-life controversies…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Cruelsummer20 (2) on 17 Jul 2022

Great Movie in spite of the critics judging it strictly for their hatred towards the author. The soundtrack is amazing, especially Taylor’s song…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Masonholmes700 (1) on 24 Jul 2022

The movie did a great job following the book (the best way a movie can adapt a book to the screen)…

Read Review

Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

By Panchogul (602) on 14 Jan 2023

No se que se fuman varios aquí para despreciar tanto una película tan maravillosa como esta…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Jun 2001

At the very least, this film should hush those who insist that Diaz has talent beyond visual appeal, but it's unfair to single out her relatively…

Read Review

Review of Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

By Jessica G (584) on 11 Aug 2008

Editor???? Did they hire one???? This was a total waste of 2 hours…

Read Review

Review of Youth Without Youth (2007)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Apr 2017

The movie is one soporific, depressed, deadeningly vague scene after another…

Read Review

Review of Running with Scissors (2006)

By Steves. (43) on 26 Feb 2007

Terrible, over-rated movie like American Beauty. Directionless, pointless, with the therapist being the worst of all roles…

Read Review

Review of Blueprint (2003)

By Panta O (398) on 05 Sep 2009

A German movie with interesting story of a famios pianist, played by Franka Potente, who is deciding to clone herself…

Read Review

Review of Shooter (2007)

By Jca. (11) on 04 Oct 2007

Fell asleep during the first 20 minutes and awoke up by the sound of a good guy shooting bullets at people that do not deserve to die…

Read Review

Review of The Reader (2008)

By Fiora95 (3) on 11 Jan 2014

I would only say: bad, bad movie. The protagonist isn't able to act, and the screenplay was atrocious and very bad…

Read Review

Review of Rang De Basanti (2006)

By Simon D (1,648) on 19 Aug 2016

I can see why these bloody long Indian films are so popular. It has something for everybody. This is what annoys me the most about them…

Read Review

Review of The Thin Red Line (1998)

By Hubcam (1) on 14 Jan 2011

Was like suffering through a 2 hour Calvin Klein commercial, Apocalypse Now style. My God what a heady bunch of crap…

Read Review

Review of Amarcord (1973)

By Jim H (1,089) on 11 Jan 2011

Dear Federico Fellini: I just watched Amarcord, and I'm left wondering: if this was what your youth was like, why am I not more famous…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

Purple Hearts

2022

56%11 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

No Time to Die

2021

74%254 Reviews

Upgrade

2018

76%696 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

The Batman

2022

75%430 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

The Expendables 3

2014

53%908 Reviews

Quo Vadis

1951

71%102 Reviews

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

2009

42%366 Reviews

Series 7

2001

64%200 Reviews

Spider-Man: Homecoming

2017

76%2,381 Reviews

Cat People

1982

60%230 Reviews

Girls Trip

2017

66%911 Reviews

A Few Best Men

2012

50%152 Reviews

Brüno

2009

53%731 Reviews