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Where the Crawdads Sing

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2022

2022

Olivia Newman

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Garret Dillahunt, David Strathairn, Harris Dickinson ...

6.1

2,428

Mystery. Thriller. Drama. Romance A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man she was once involved with.

	Author	Review
United States	Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"'Where the Crawdads Sing' is the kind of tedious moral fantasy that fuels America’s misguided idealism (...) The narrative depends heavily on racial and gender stereotypes and classist thinking to operate"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"An unconvincing, melodramatic affair that only occasionally locates the story’s mournful heart"	NEU
United Kingdom	Anna Bogutskaya Time Out	"Not even an on-form Daisy Edgar-Jones can save this snoozy Southern gothic (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A mystery as dark as it is romantic (...) The ending is a genuine jaw-dropper, and while I wouldn’t go near reveling it, I’ll just say that this is a movie (...) that has the courage of its outsider spirit."	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"[It] remains faithful to the fantasies of the book, for better and mostly for worse (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Anchored by a strong Daisy Edgar-Jones performance (...) 'Where the Crawdads Sing' works best when it embraces its own true nature as a popcorn movie"	NEU
United States	Carlos Aguilar The Wrap	"[It] feels entirely trapped in bygone tropes with little effort to reinvent them."	NEG
United States	Alyse Wax Collider	"'Where the Crawdads Sing' is the kind of movie your mom will love (...) a weirdly uncomfortable movie, on many different levels"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"'Where the Crawdads Sing' falls short of the book's magic"	NEG
United States	Leigh Monson AV Club	"It’s as faithful an adaptation as could likely be managed (...) the biggest faults of 'Where The Crawdad Sings' are ultimately the ones it inherited from the book"	NEU
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"Though it is faithful, 'Where the Crawdads Sing' is lacking the essential character and storytelling connective tissue that makes a story like this work — an adaptation such as this cannot survive on plot alone"	NEG
United States	Belen Edwards Mashable	"Beautiful shots of marshland and a solid leading performance by Daisy Edgar-Jones aren't enough to save 'Where the Crawdads Sing' from itself."	NEU
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Overblown and tedious Southern drama"	NEG
United States	Brianna Zigler The Playlist	"Fans of the book will most likely enjoy the film (...) Sadly, I am not one of these people"	NEU
United States	Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"For a film about a brave woman who’s grown up in the wild, living by her own rules, 'Where the Crawdads Sing' is unusually tepid and restrained (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Canada	Rachel Labonte Screen Rant	"As a movie, 'Where the Crawdads Sing' stumbles a bit in its transition from page to screen, though it is aided by a great lead performance (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"The film spins a soapy yet dramatically inert and often tone-deaf yarn about societal rejection and female empowerment (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"The film is a self-serious, but consciously aesthetically pleasing, adaptation of a, frankly, silly soap opera"	NEU
United States	Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"As an adaptation of her novel, the movie is too plain and indecisive to make a lasting impact"	NEG
United Kingdom	Sophie Butcher Empire	"You never quite buy the young, thin, beautiful, white Kya as a true outsider (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Daisy Edgar-Jones was a lockdown smash for her excellent performance in 'Normal People', and she deserved better for her Hollywood debut than this uncompromisingly terrible southern gothic schmaltzer (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Deadline	"Unfortunately, this ripe-for-adaptation melodrama has been flattened, de-juiced and otherwise withered into a massively banal and flavorless porridge"	NEG
Australia	Hagan Osborne The Curb	"While certain elements of the film leave more to be desired, there are some effective applications of symbolism present in Newman’s wetland vision"	NEU

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