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Name: Where the Crawdads Sing
Released: 2022-7-15
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson

Where the Crawdads Sing

PG-13
2h 5m
2022

35%

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From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within the marsh.

Director:

Olivia Newman

Producer:

Reese Witherspoon, Shannon Vayo

Writer:

Lucy Alibar

Cast:

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson

Features

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Creating The World

6 MIN

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Women In Focus

5 MIN

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Adapting A Phenomenon

9 MIN

Deleted and Extended Scenes

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

35%

Critics Consensus: Daisy Edgar-Jones gives it her all, but Where the Crawdads Sing is ultimately unable to distill its source material into a tonally coherent drama.

Reviews

CineWomen

Annlee Ellingson

What means to be a whodunit that leaves the reveal to the very, very end, Where the Crawdads Sing, directed by Olivia Newman, instead sucks all of the mystery out of a murder trial that offers no alternatives to the theory at hand.

It’s far more concerned with binary portrayals of good and bad, presenting them as overly whimsical or toxic respectively. It’s a promising concept that translates into a frustrating experience of tonal incoherence.

it unfortunately runs the original story through the Hollywood machine, rendering it a surface-level and boilerplate experience that dilutes the emotional profundity of its source material. All the while being a borderline unbearable snooze fest.

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Channel24 (South Africa)

Ilan Preskovsky

No doubt Alibar and Newman are just keeping as close as possible to the book. It is very much to their credit that they have committed so totally to giving the fans what they want without resorting to cheap fan service.

Where the Crawdads Sing makes for a decent if generic coming-of-age story and a bland murder mystery.

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