Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Directed by Olivia Newman
Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.
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Tate’s misunderstood absence does, indeed, feel like that period of time in The Notebook when Noah (Ryan Gosling) and Allie (Rachel McAdams) were separated.
A rushed scene towards the end (with characters growing old together) tries to capture a snippet of the emotionality in 2004’s The Notebook .
Even Reese Witherspoon (heavily involved in the film via Hello Sunshine) knows something about a good Southern love triangle (see: Sweet Home Alabama ).
And the conclusion, hoping to present a stunning revelation or two, is so outrageously unconvincing (perhaps even more so than in “Just Cause” or “The Power of the Dog” or “Primal Fear”); it hardly matters that the denouement is so pointlessly overlong that it threatens to make viewers give up on ever learning the truth – or feel contented with such a storytelling void.