Film Reviews

Syrupy Crawdads adaptation fails to resonate; Ryan Gosling causes mayhem in The Gray Man

The screen version of Delia Owens’s popular novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, turns a complex and often dark story of marginalisation and murder into a flat, overly sanitised film

Daisy Edgar-Jones in Where the Crawdads Sing: the actor is far more convincing as a self-taught artist and environmentalist than a supposedly half-wild woman raised in a swamp

The story of Delia Owens is at least as interesting as that contained in her debut novel Where the Crawdads Sing and far more so than director Olivia Newman’s soapy adaptation.

A retired botanist and zoologist who spent much of her career in southern Africa studying lions and elephants with her then-husband Mark, a controversial anti-poaching conservationist, Owens emerged from nowhere at the age of 70 in 2018 to become one of the world’s most ...