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
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 ...