Where The Crawdads Sing

The film adaptation of bestselling novel Where the Crawdads Sing, which is out today in the UK, has been panned by UK critics as 'bland' and a 'mess' with ...

In any case, the big spoilers all come courtesy of Newman and screenwriter Lucy Alibar, who don’t so much sanitise the story as scrub the life out of it. I’m loath to say so, because she’s an engaging young actress, but a good deal of the problem lies with Edgar-Jones. Worse than miscast, she is misdirected. And darn it if they don’t turn out to be just what the world of publishing was waiting for. Throughout all this we are whisked back and forth in time, between Kya’s burgeoning career, her romantic adventures, and a later murder trial, in which she is the defendant. Every time the story demands an unequivocal punch, it delivers a lacklustre slap. On the upside, there’s some tip-top cinematography; the North Carolina wetlands never looked lovelier. Where The Crawdads Sing turns a stirring and suspenseful story into cinematic mush. Together, they are a sugary young dream, less Tate and Kya than Tate & Lyle. Reese Witherspoon's adaptation of Delia Owens' hit novel is panned by UK critics who say it's 'bland' and 'cinematic mush' While Deborah Rossfor The Spectator did not rate the film out of five stars, readers of her review can probably guess for themselves how she would have ranked it.for The Spectator did not rate the film out of five stars, readers of her review can probably guess for themselves how she would have ranked it. Brian Viner for The Daily Mail said Edgar-Jones was 'miscast' and 'misdirected' in the role of Kya Clark One of the most highly-anticipated films of the year, Where the Crawdads Sing was supposed to make waves in the movie world.

It's been a while since a big summer blockbuster was based on a bestselling novel for grown-ups, where characters are accused of murder, face off in hot ...

Edgar-Jones is compelling, and in a more sure-footed (or less tasteful) thriller, the movie’s ludicrousness might be delightful. The potboiler premise is theoretically irresistible: Kya ( Daisy Edgar-Jones), a young woman living on her own in the North Carolina marsh, gets hauled off to jail by the local authorities, accused of murdering local man Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson). Her good-hearted lawyer (David Strathairn) attempts to draw some information out of her, and flashbacks fill in Kya’s personal history. It’s been a while since a big summer blockbuster was based on a bestselling novel for grown-ups, where characters are accused of murder, face off in hot courtrooms and sometimes have sex.

Sony thriller Where The Crawdads Sing receives the biggest-ever release for any film directed by a woman at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, ...

Vertigo Films is distributing Charlotte Colbert’s UK-US thriller She Will in 15 locations. It will open in 41 standard sites and 34 Imax venues, for a 75-site total opening, through Pathe. The distributor first released the film in its native France in March, taking £1.7m on opening weekend and £5m by the start of May. Screen has contacted NTLive for figures. Adapted by Lucy Alibar from Delia Owens’ 2018 novel of the same name, Where The Crawdads Sing centres on a woman who raises herself in the marshes of the US deep South, then becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was involved. Directed by Olivia Newman, the film’s total tops the 673-site release for 2019’s Frozen 2, which was directed by Jennifer Lee, alongside Chris Buck; as well as the 650-site release of Cate Shortland’s Black Widow from last year – the previous widest release by a film solely directed by a woman.