Olivia Newman’s mystery film Where the Crawdad’s Sing has arrived in cinemas and the reviews aren’t so positive.
The film, which follows the story of a girl named Kya, features Daisy-Edgar Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, and David Strathairn.
Set in the 1950s and 1960s in rural North Carolina, the narrative blends elements of murder mystery, romance, and nature writing with a coming-of-age story about Kya, who grew up alone in the marshes.
The film is based on the bestselling book of the same name which sold more than 12m copies since its publication in 2018. It was featured as part of Reese Witherspoon’s book club, and the actor now serves as the film’s executive producer.
Time will tell how the film does at the box office, but it hasn’t been received extremely well by the critics.
Find a roundup of Where the Crawdad’s Sing reviews below.
The film, which follows the story of a girl named Kya, features Daisy-Edgar Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, and David Strathairn.
Set in the 1950s and 1960s in rural North Carolina, the narrative blends elements of murder mystery, romance, and nature writing with a coming-of-age story about Kya, who grew up alone in the marshes.
The film is based on the bestselling book of the same name which sold more than 12m copies since its publication in 2018. It was featured as part of Reese Witherspoon’s book club, and the actor now serves as the film’s executive producer.
Time will tell how the film does at the box office, but it hasn’t been received extremely well by the critics.
Find a roundup of Where the Crawdad’s Sing reviews below.
- 11/18/2022
- by Peony Hirwani
- The Independent - Film
Clare Balding's new Wimbledon highlights show has been met with largely negative reviews since it debuted on Monday (June 29).
Wimbledon 2Day has been criticised by tennis fans on Twitter, while Radio Times called it "a mess, a giddy mix of inane tweets, snippets of matches (let's not forget actual tennis is being played, something, presumably we all want to see, which is why we've tuned in) and a bit of chat."
Much of the criticism has been levelled at the name of the show, and the fact that it's replaced tennis highlights with The One Show-style chat, home videos from viewers and tweets.
The show replaced the long-running Today at Wimbledon series which presented highlights of the day's action for those who may have missed the live matches while at work.
Its second show on Tuesday (June 30) appeared to be slightly tweaked to show more tennis, but viewers were still not best pleased.
Wimbledon 2Day has been criticised by tennis fans on Twitter, while Radio Times called it "a mess, a giddy mix of inane tweets, snippets of matches (let's not forget actual tennis is being played, something, presumably we all want to see, which is why we've tuned in) and a bit of chat."
Much of the criticism has been levelled at the name of the show, and the fact that it's replaced tennis highlights with The One Show-style chat, home videos from viewers and tweets.
The show replaced the long-running Today at Wimbledon series which presented highlights of the day's action for those who may have missed the live matches while at work.
Its second show on Tuesday (June 30) appeared to be slightly tweaked to show more tennis, but viewers were still not best pleased.
- 7/1/2015
- Digital Spy
You might guess that "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" is the cinematic equivalent of a greasy paper plate that should be wadded up and thrown away outside a Sbarro, and you, sir or madam, are a good guesser. Critics and Twitter pundits agree that the new Kevin James flick is bad for humankind. But there's an upside here: Hilarious comments about bad movies are good for humankind. We've rounded up ten good (and/or just irreverent) takedowns of "PBMC2" and ranked them for your disgusted pleasure. 10. The philosophical take. "This oft-ridiculed screen giant is here to answer a question that has plagued mankind for decades now: what would a film be like if every single person involved made as little effort as humanly possible?" -Tom Huddleston, Time Out London 9. Does Blart imitate life? "[Paul Blart] is barely anything at all; a stereotype of a stereotype; a half-remembered punchline; a stomach with a mustache and wheels.
- 4/17/2015
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
The Weinstein Co. picked up their fact-based odyssey out of the Venice and Telluride festivals last year, where it collected a bevy of critical admirers there and in Toronto before finally opening a year later. With much of the running time devoted to an often-silent Wasikowska with a quartet of scene-stealing camels and a trusty black lab as her lone companions, the film is a true test of whether the 24-year-old actress has enough star power to hold an audience’s interest. Judging by the reviews, the answer is a fairly resounding yes. “Ever redder of nose, ever more bedraggled about the hair, Wasikowska, without much dialogue, invests the character with complexity, intelligence and charisma,” wrote “Irish Times” critic Donald Clarke. “Variety’s” Justin Chang described the actress’s performance as “fine and flinty” and “authentically jagged and lived-in.” David Edelstein of “New York” magazine praised Wasikowska’s ability to be “bracingly anti-ingratiating,...
- 9/22/2014
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie hit cinemas on Friday (June 27), as Brendan O'Carroll brought Mammy and co. to the big screen.
While the BBC sitcom has always proved to be hugely popular with viewers, the critics have remained less impressed. However, will a film version change their opinions?
Below, Digital Spy rounds up the reactions to D'Movie.
The Guardian - Mike McCahill
"You sense O'Carroll has diluted his own show's essence for wider multiplex consumption: while the sitcom could be broad, it was often clever with it, and never this bland.
"Unlike Guest House Paradiso or Kevin and Perry Go Large or Keith Lemon, D'Movie is never aggressively, in-your-face bad; it's more a flatly indifferent cash-in – and the devoted fanbase this character has accrued over the past decade may yet rally to ensure it does indeed become another Inbetweeners-style box-office bonanza: comedy is subjective, after all. Yet poking through the...
While the BBC sitcom has always proved to be hugely popular with viewers, the critics have remained less impressed. However, will a film version change their opinions?
Below, Digital Spy rounds up the reactions to D'Movie.
The Guardian - Mike McCahill
"You sense O'Carroll has diluted his own show's essence for wider multiplex consumption: while the sitcom could be broad, it was often clever with it, and never this bland.
"Unlike Guest House Paradiso or Kevin and Perry Go Large or Keith Lemon, D'Movie is never aggressively, in-your-face bad; it's more a flatly indifferent cash-in – and the devoted fanbase this character has accrued over the past decade may yet rally to ensure it does indeed become another Inbetweeners-style box-office bonanza: comedy is subjective, after all. Yet poking through the...
- 6/28/2014
- Digital Spy
Ulrich Seidl‘s Paradise: Love movie Cannes Film Festival 2012: Reviews for Ulrich Seidl‘s Paradies: Liebe / Paradise: Love, in which an Austrian woman (Margarethe Tiesel) and her friends travel to Kenya for a good time with the young locals, have been overwhelmingly negative. (To the best of my knowledge, this Paradise: Love has nothing to do with the song "Paradise Love" from the movie Wild Orchid.) [If you're not offended by the human body, check out this beautiful Paradise: Love nude.] Some of the commentaries reek of moralistic outrage: the chief complaint being that Seidl’s film doesn’t take a "morally acceptable" stance against sex tourism — even if those involved, as seems to be the case here, are all too willing. (Though no less moralistic, Allan Hunter’s review at Screen International has a different take on how Paradise: Love depicts sex tourism.) Others have found Seidl’s handling of the various goings-on either abhorrent or dull — sometimes both. And finally, some have...
- 5/18/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
"After a period in which versions of Austen hogged our screens, the Brontës have fought back," writes Boyd Tonkin in a piece for the Independent that begins, by the way, with a brief but rousing history of Charlotte's detestation of Jane Austen. "Released today, Andrea Arnold's savagely uncompromising Wuthering Heights joins a line of adaptations of Emily's only surviving novel that began in 1920 (a lost work by Av Bramble) and went on to include renderings from directors as varied as William Wyler — with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon still the ranking Heathcliff and Cathy Earnshaw to many fans — and Yoshishige Yoshida, Luis Buñuel and Jacques Rivette. Earlier this year, Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre, with Mia Wasikowska as the uncowed governess and Michael Fassbender the sulphurous Mr Rochester, offered a rather smoother ride through another much-adapted book, albeit one that shares with Arnold — and the Brontës — a rapt attention...
- 11/13/2011
- MUBI
After garnering rave reviews during the Toronto International Film Festival, Irish film 'Death of a Superhero' has secured a Us distribution deal with Tribeca Enterprises, and Pasatiempo Pictures in Latin America.Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon (Perrier's Bounty, Spin the Bottle), 'Death of a Superhero' uses a mix of live action and animation, to tell the story of terminally ill teenager Donald Clarke, who escapes life to his illustrated comic adventures.
- 11/2/2011
- IFTN
Two of Screenterrier's favourite young actors Thomas Sangster (recently seen in BBC3 film Some Dogs Bite) and Aisling Loftus (star of Dive and one of Screenterrier's Faces to Watch from 2009) join forces to star in Death of a Superhero, which has just premiered to much acclaim, at the Toronto Film Festival.
Based on New Zealander Anthony McCarten's novel of the same name, the film centres around Donald Clarke, played by Sangster, a terminally ill teenager who craves sex and adventure, however his time is limited and he’s never even had a girlfriend. Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, the film blends live action with animation to tell the story of the young would-be graphic artist who knows that death is just around the corner.
Aisling Loftus (soon to be seen in the new BBC adaptation of The Borrowers) plays Shelly, the girl with whom Donald finds affection and a kind of kinship,...
Based on New Zealander Anthony McCarten's novel of the same name, the film centres around Donald Clarke, played by Sangster, a terminally ill teenager who craves sex and adventure, however his time is limited and he’s never even had a girlfriend. Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, the film blends live action with animation to tell the story of the young would-be graphic artist who knows that death is just around the corner.
Aisling Loftus (soon to be seen in the new BBC adaptation of The Borrowers) plays Shelly, the girl with whom Donald finds affection and a kind of kinship,...
- 9/27/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Cancer is one of life’s great fears, a grand equalizer that takes without discretion. Children are lost while their parents watch, talents with the ability to make a difference in the world leave us before their impact can ever be felt, and loved ones pass when after we told ourselves we’d have so more time. For the person dying, however, the outlook becomes both bleaker and brighter. Sure, they are angry with God or whomever they blame for putting them in their impossible position, but there is also something to be said about the calm acceptance of death. While family and friends cry in a natural outpouring of emotion, they force the dying to console. But watching someone young accept their fate isn’t the same as standing by while they give up. Sometimes it is through the knowledge of the inevitable that we can truly live. It...
- 9/10/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
A fascinating one to look out for here, coming from Ian Fitzgibbon - the director of A Film With Me In It and Perrier's Bounty.
Andy Serkis and Thomas Sangster - for my money one of the finest actors of his generation - star in Death Of A Superhero, a feature adaptation of the novel by Anthony McCarten.
With principal photography now wrapped in Ireland the picture stars Sangster as Donald Delpe, a teenage kid who - like most teenage kids - really wants to get laid. Complicating this somewhat is the fact that Donald is also terminally ill and retreating into a fantasy world as a way of coping. Here's how the picture is described by the Irish Film And Television Network:
'Superhero' is based on Anthony McCarten's novel 'Death of a Superhero' centres around Donald Clarke, a terminally ill teenager who craves sex and adventure, however his...
Andy Serkis and Thomas Sangster - for my money one of the finest actors of his generation - star in Death Of A Superhero, a feature adaptation of the novel by Anthony McCarten.
With principal photography now wrapped in Ireland the picture stars Sangster as Donald Delpe, a teenage kid who - like most teenage kids - really wants to get laid. Complicating this somewhat is the fact that Donald is also terminally ill and retreating into a fantasy world as a way of coping. Here's how the picture is described by the Irish Film And Television Network:
'Superhero' is based on Anthony McCarten's novel 'Death of a Superhero' centres around Donald Clarke, a terminally ill teenager who craves sex and adventure, however his...
- 12/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Two of Screenterrier's favourite young actors Thomas Sangster (recently seen in BBC3 film Some Dogs Bite) and Aisling Loftus (star of Dive and one of Screenterrier's Faces to Watch from 2009) join forces to star in Superhero, a new feature film from Grand Pictures, which has just wrapped after shooting for 6 weeks in Ireland and Germany.
'Superhero' is based on Anthony McCarten's novel 'Death of a Superhero' and centres around Donald Clarke, a terminally ill teenager who craves sex and adventure, however his time is limited and he’s never even had a girlfriend. As a form of escape, Donald retreats from the harsh realities of life to his illustrated comic book adventures. These stories see the indestructible Miraculousman fight a never-ending battle against his arch nemesis, the mad scientist known as The Glove.
After reluctantly seeing several psychologists Donald meets shrink number six, Dr. Adrian King, 'Dr. Death' (played...
'Superhero' is based on Anthony McCarten's novel 'Death of a Superhero' and centres around Donald Clarke, a terminally ill teenager who craves sex and adventure, however his time is limited and he’s never even had a girlfriend. As a form of escape, Donald retreats from the harsh realities of life to his illustrated comic book adventures. These stories see the indestructible Miraculousman fight a never-ending battle against his arch nemesis, the mad scientist known as The Glove.
After reluctantly seeing several psychologists Donald meets shrink number six, Dr. Adrian King, 'Dr. Death' (played...
- 11/28/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
"Lord of the Rings" actor Andy Serkis speaks about his love for Ireland while on location in Dublin. Serkis plays a psychologist for his latest role in the homegrown production. “Superhero” is the latest German-Irish co-production to take advantage of talented Irish film crews during their five week filming stint in Ireland recently. The feature is based on Anthony McCarten's novel 'Death of a Superhero' and is being co-produced between Irish production company Grand Pictures and Germany's Bavaria Pictures. The film has brought together an all star cast line up and tells the story of a terminally ill teenager who craves sex and adventure. Recently filming in Dun Laoghaire, the cast spoke with the Irish Film and Television Network (Iftn). With his time limited Donald Clarke who is played by British actor Tomas Sangster decides to depart upon his own adventure through his love for comic books. As a...
- 10/25/2010
- IrishCentral
Andy Serkis takes on the lead role in Ian Fitzgibbon’s (Perriers Bounty) Superhero, which see’s principal photography kicking off today, in Dublin, on a German-Irish coproduction. The movie is based on the novel “Death of a Superhero” by Anthony McCarten and tells the story of a terminally ill teenager, Donald Clarke who craves sex and adventure. As his time is limited, and with no girlfriend he withdraws from the harsh realities of life and his illustrated comic book adventures where he battles his arch nemesis, The Glove. The movie will shoot for six weeks here and then production will move to Germany for final filming and post production. The movie should hit the big screen sometime at the end of 2011 or early 2012...
- 10/5/2010
- by vicbarry@gmail.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
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