PG-13 | 2h 5min | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 15 July 2022 (USA)
A movie one might expect to see released in the late fall awards-bait season, “Where the Crawdads Sing” [WTCS] is nonetheless dropping in mid-summer where superhero, animation, and action fare rule the multiplexes.
However, if the larger-than-expected audience at the pre-release screening of this film is any kind of indicator, there are a whole bunch of people looking for something more cerebral and lacking in special effects, chase scenes, and family-friendly bathroom humor.
Taylor John Smith as Tate Walker and Daisy Edgar-Jones as Catherine “Kya” Clark in “Where the Crawdads Sing.” (Columbia Pictures)
At various points recalling elements of “Sling Blade,” “Winter’s Bone,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and the selected works of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Flannery O’Connor, “WTCS” is the very definition of classic Southern Gothic….