A Carolina drama, a shell with shoes and a Jane Austen adaptation are among the week's new movies.
Here's a glance at the new titles in theaters and on streaming this week and where to find them.
"Where the Crawdads Sing": In this adaptation of the gigantic bestseller (12 million sales and counting), Daisy Edgar-Jones ("Normal People," "Fresh") plays a character from the North Carolina marsh who winds up on trial for the murder of the town jock. Unfortunately the courtroom scenes are limp, the romance is stiff and it's hard to believe Edgar-Jones as the subject of the town's scorn. It's like curling up with a bad book. In theaters
