On July 13, “Where The Crawdads Sing” was released in theaters.

The movie is based on Delia Owens’ best-selling novel.

However, it looks like the film failed to live up to expectations set by the book.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the audience score sat at 93% on Friday afternoon.

However, the critic rating was an abysmal 33%.

Peter Travers of ABC News called the film “an antiseptic, airbrushed, miscast misfire.”

Roger Moore of Movie Nation slammed the movie as “corny, slow, and dull.”

Kim Hughes of Original Cin said that the movie “fails to spark.”

Ty Burr of Ty Burr’s Watch List wrote simply, “It is … acceptable.”