The way her fierce fight for survival against neglect, judgement, and loneliness was portrayed hit right in the feels beautifully

I am a simp Daisy..I love her all the work not because i am a simp for her but because she is wonderful. I am rooting for her make it big in future.

take my energy, Daisy <3

This is such Goodreads-core fodder, one for Book Twitter girls to woo and fawn over while they project themselves onto the reclusive Kya as she has two absurdly attractive men fight for her hand as she barely says a word; the female equivalent to Ryan Gosling in Drive and Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver. Not to dump on the movie entirely, but I feel a lot of character was lost here in the translation to film; characters that I'm sure have depth and layers have been reduced to one note cliches. This only enhances the YA love-triangle feel that really drags the movie down into pulp fiction when I feel it's swinging for American Classic literature. DEJ is still great though, and David Strathairn did well with the napkin script he was given, and it surely is a looker of a movie with some of the shots of the marsh. But what we're left with is the structure of something that could be great, a mystery that pulls you in firmly but devolves to young adult nonsense for the majority of the runtime. The high review score on here is frankly shocking.

Top model, with top hair, top skin, top teeths, no body hair (in the 60es!) tries to convince us she grew up all alone in the marshes.. Also the crawdads didn't even sing.. Also wtf are even crawdads?

This was a solid movie start to finish. I thought it did a particularly good job with its pacing especially switching seamlessly from the present day courtroom scenes to flashbacks of Kya. Particular shout out to David Strathairn for his portrayal as the defense lawyer as he was able to connect with the audience with little to work with. The rest of the cast was also very strong (including the child actors) although I do feel that the other lawyer was not very convincing in his role. [spoiler] My biggest complaint about this movie is that it implies at the end that Kya murdered Chase, yet given the lack of evidence given in court this seemed almost impossible. How would she have made it to her meeting on time the next day? One small nitpick I had was Tate being horrified when he discovers the necklace. To me, he should have reacted with a smile. [/spoiler]

The best thing about the film is that it manages to be as corny and boring as the novel, an attempt at a great American story full of kitsch and unbearable metaphors. The incredible thing is that the screenwriter of a film as beautiful as "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (2012) makes the mistake of wanting to include almost everything in a hasty ending, and builds a mystery without mystery and a poetic gaze without poetry. I still don't know if the trial is more bearable or the endless walks through the marshes.

I can only say that I expected more. I understand that the team must delete and change many things due to the duration limitation of a movie, but still, the warm feeling of the book just not there anymore. You can hardly see Kya's growth anymore, and both Tate and Chase are being portraited so shallow and thin. Losing the A.H. piece is also very shameful. I would much prefer to have the book adapted to a 6~8 episodes mini series instead. P.S. kya should be quite different when she was first learning spelling and reading with Tate and fighting with Chase, but the casts failed to deliver the growth and changes, that's really sad.

Excellent movie, especially the last 15 seconds.

Normally I don't give such a big rating to movies not based on true events. But this story is so good, the acting was so real that I felt like I am a part of this story, like I was there. Superb movie which I won't hesitate to recommend.

Daisy Edgar-Jones is distractingly attractive

34% on Rotten Tomatoes... That's laughable. This was a solid movie. I would've preferred that it was broken down into episodes, so some areas could go more in depth but it was still a good movie, period.

A pretty straightforward mystery plot with some great acting. I didn't think it was anything exceptional; just good.

Great movie all around; scenery, acting, landscape, directing, wardrobe, script. They did an amazing job.

An interesting mix of thriller and romance.

I've never read the book but I'm sure going to. What a movie. It was strong and the scenery was amazing. I won't be shocked if it gets an Oscar nomination too

This was amazing, I thought the acting was top tier. Very close to the book which I love and I still to this day will be stand by the fact that that twist at the ending is amazing.

I didn’t know anything about this going in except that it is a very popular book, and all I could imagine were the lonely people reading this book and in their minds thinking “I have no one but ‘marsh girl’ has two dudes fighting over her”

They say it's a marsh but this is so bogged down with overly cheap melodrama that it seems more like a cesspool. Was the novel this awful?

Saw an advance screening, and I honestly don't know what the critics are on, this film was excellent.

The film is quite pleasant, and quite well filmed. The weak part is the novel it is based, which follows the cliches and recurrent themes of recent American novels (which I was expecting), with lots of forced passages and plot devices.

I knew nothing about the movie going in and although I had seen the trailer once it was nothing like I expected. The story line was very intriguing and I really appreciated how they told it. The actors played their part well, however, I felt that we could have had a better insight into Chase. We all knew where that was headed though. The only reason that I gave it a 9 and not a 10 is they told the story well, but then the end just wrapped up so quickly it felt a bit empty. Would definitely watch again though.

One of my favorite movies of the year.
What an incredible emotional edge if your seat film that blends a few different genres together to create a very deep life meanings beautiful piece. Cinematographers will have a hay day examining this piece.
One could have mistaken this film as a Nicholas Sparks piece as it takes place in the Carolinas and follows a young girl and her adventurous love life that goes from good to bad to back to good. As in Nicholas Sparks films there is a passionate romance that gets interrupted by a potential life altering event that could ruin the bright future but then it’s overcome and it’s a happy ending. But in this film the life altering event is the main focus and the romance is secondary. This makes for an intriguing deep rooted drama of a movie. Acting was superb too.

Split opinion on this. Overall, though, I think my thoughts regarding it are, just narrowly, positive.

'Where the Crawdads Sing' is a tad overlong and I'm not sold on the ending, though even so I think I like this enough. The acting is the big reason for that, with Daisy Edgar-Jones standing out alongside David Strathairn. Taylor John Smith and Garret Dillahunt are solid elsewhere. Away from the actors, most other elements are forgettable.

The conclusion is iffy to me. It was clear the film was holding something back in regards to the story, though the way it eventually goes isn't the most satisfying to me personally. It's a pretty straightforward film, when all is said and done.

It's close to being what I'd consider a miss, but I reckon it just about does enough right. 6/10 doesn't feel fitting to me, so 7/10 it is.