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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 15 Jul 2022

While Where the Crawdads Sing is rich in atmosphere, it’s sorely lacking in actual substance or suspense…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 15 Jul 2022

This is a movie that seems to be striving to please a crowd, but its cornpone humility only becomes wearying…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 15 Jul 2022

Sorry to beat the hell out of a book millions have bought and presumably adored…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 15 Jul 2022

The Delia Owens bestseller about sex and murder in the Carolinas comes to the screen as an antiseptic, airbrushed, miscast misfire that takes…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 15 Jul 2022

Whatever the charms of the book, they are entirely absent from the dull and listless film…

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By Emily Zemler (55) for Observer (1,042) on 14 Jul 2022

It’s a movie that resonates, particularly for those who felt drawn in by Owens’ novel, although certainly there will be viewers who find…

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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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