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Our pick of some of the best book to film and TV adaptations, from Pachinko to Dune

There have been hundreds of wonderful screen adaptations. These are some of our favourites

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Michelin-starred chef called ‘disgrace’ in Frog name row

Today’s Diary: Michelin-starred chef in copyright dispute / Daisy Edgar-Jones reveals how she got her skill for accents / What will become of Rishi’s side projects? / London-born Booker nominee tells us how she celebrated

Evening Standard

Where the Crawdads Sing review – soggy adaptation of the coming-of-age bestseller

Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kya, struggling to escape toxic men in the North Carolina marshes, in this handsome but hokey drama

The Guardian - UK

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Crawdads star Daisy Edgar-Jones says Geordie and Welsh accents are 'tough' to master

Actress Daisy Edgar-Jones, 24, reveals her struggles mastering British dialects like Geordie and Welsh after pulling off Irish and Deep South accents to perfection

Daily Mirror

From Where the Crawdads Sing to Uncoupled: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you’re partial to a swampy murder-mystery based on a bestseller or a divorce drama with Neil Patrick Harris, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

Where the Crawdad’s Sing on Netflix: What the critics had to say about Daisy Edgar Jones movie

‘It feels particularly farcical in the face of how the film’s sole Black characters are treated,’ Clarisse Loughrey wrote

The Independent UK

Is Where The Crawdads Sing a true story and where is it set?

The film is based on a multi-million selling book that was written by a retired American wildlife biologist and took off in popularity during lockdown

Daily Mirror

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Where the Crawdads Sing review: A glossy, Instagram-primed buffet of cinematic faux-feminism

Film adaptation of Delia Owens’ murky bestseller depicts rural South Carolina as scrubbed so clean you might as well call it #swampcore

The Independent UK

Daisy Edgar-Jones' reason for not swimming in the sea after family incident

The actress said she was fearful to take the plunge over lockdown

Irish Mirror

Where the Crawdads Sing review – Daisy Edgar-Jones wasted in terrible southern Gothic schmaltz

Normal People star deserved a better Hollywood debut than this solemnly ridiculous film and its outrageously evasive cheat ending

The Guardian - UK

Daisy Edgar-Jones can't wait to party in certain Dublin nightclub

The Normal People star jetted into the capital on Tuesday and named her prime spot for a night out

Irish Mirror

Daisy Edgar-Jones puts on leggy display after jetting into Ireland for movie premiere

The 24-year-old told us she was delighted to be back in Ireland to escape the hot London weather and considered it a second home

Irish Mirror

Questions linger over 'Where the Crawdads Sing' author as film adaptation is released

Resurfaced news about author Delia Owen may overshadow the film adaptation of Where The Crawdads Sing, her bestselling 2018 novel about a young woman raised in the marshes of North Carolina

WEKU

"Crawdads Sing" is spoon-fed melodrama

Delia Owen's novel is crammed into this sluggish account of The Marsh Girl (Daisy Edgar-Jones) accused of murder

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'Crawdads,' 'Persuasion': Movies to see (or skip) this weekend

A Carolina drama, a shell with shoes and a Jane Austen adaptation are among the week's new movies.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Where the Crawdads Sing’: Arrest draws a recluse out of her wetlands isolation in uneven but well-acted period piece

Daisy Edgar-Jones’ performance and the gorgeous imagery redeem a book adaptation that’s uneven and sometimes implausible.

Daily Mirror

The hottest movies this summer from Brad Pitt's Bullet Train to Where the Crawdads Sing

There will be a hot summer of Hollywood action with Brad Pitt starring in the thriller Bullet Train and bestselling novel Where The Crawdads Sing coming to the big screen

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Where the Crawdads Sing' a faithful if unfulfilling adaptation of bestselling novel

In 2018, retired zoologist Delia Owens, the author of the bestselling 1984 memoir “Cry of the Kalahari,” published her first novel at the age of 69. “Where the Crawdads Sing” is set on the North Carolina coast in the 1950s and ‘60s, threading romance and murder mystery through the life…

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The Guardian - US

Where the Crawdads Sing review – hit novel crashes on the big screen

The Reese Witherspoon-produced adaptation of the best-seller remains faithful to the fantasies of the book, for better and mostly for worse

The Independent UK

‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ comes to life and to the screen

Reese Witherspoon was an early champion of “Where the Crawdads Sing,” a coming-of-age story, romance and courtroom drama about a young girl growing up alone in the marshes of costal North Carolina, and set out to make a feature film with the help of screenwriter Lucy Alibar and director Olivia…

Evening Standard

Where the Crawdads Sing star Daisy Edgar-Jones says it’s important to be ‘resilient’ as an actor

The Normal People star is gearing up for her second role adapted from a book in Reese Witherspoon’s produced Where the Crawdads Sing

Irish Mirror

Daisy Edgar Jones says she "loves" her former co-star Paul Mescal's new look

The actress reckons Mescal can 'pull off anything'

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: Tom Holland’s dad Dom was offered ‘untold riches’ for TV show

Keeping Up with Spider-Man off the cards / Normal People star still feels ‘normal’ / Pagan parties / The PM’s penchant for a riddle / Peer criticises Kahlo exhibition

The Independent UK

Daisy Edgar-Jones recalls struggling to act hours after receiving Golden Globe nomination

‘Normal People’ star says she thought ‘maybe this is the end of my career’

The Guardian - UK

Sally Rooney novels reset expectations of Ireland, says TV director

Lenny Abrahamson says characters in the books and TV adaptations less encumbered than his own generation

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