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Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantastical, emotionally powerful journey and a strong case of filmmaking that values imagination over money.
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What is also extraordinary is that almost all the people we see are actors. So this is not a documentary but a moving enactment by people who are themselves moved. Jun 17, 2013 | Full Review…
What is also extraordinary is that almost all the people we see are actors. So this is not a documentary but a moving enactment by people who are themselves moved.
Stanley Kauffmann
Beasts of the Southern Wild is sheer poetry on screen: an explosion of joy in the midst of startling squalor and one of the most visceral, original films to come along in a while. Jan 8, 2013
Beasts of the Southern Wild is sheer poetry on screen: an explosion of joy in the midst of startling squalor and one of the most visceral, original films to come along in a while.
Christy Lemire
When can we watch it again? Oct 24, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
When can we watch it again?
Sophie Ivan
It doesn't ultimately make any sense at all and, for me, its charm wasn't enough to sustain the whole ramshackle structure. Oct 19, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It doesn't ultimately make any sense at all and, for me, its charm wasn't enough to sustain the whole ramshackle structure.
David Sexton
Benh Zeitlin's debut feature is part film, part hallucination: a ripe and gamey piece of what you might call Apocalyptic Southern Gothic, ambitious and flawed but sprinting with energy. Oct 18, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Benh Zeitlin's debut feature is part film, part hallucination: a ripe and gamey piece of what you might call Apocalyptic Southern Gothic, ambitious and flawed but sprinting with energy.
Peter Bradshaw
A dreamy but strikingly immediate and frayed-at-the-edges, child's-eye view of life on the margins of America. Oct 16, 2012 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A dreamy but strikingly immediate and frayed-at-the-edges, child's-eye view of life on the margins of America.
Dave Calhoun
"Southern Wild" is a hypnotic bit of cinematic poetry that is as vivid as its lead character's imagination. Apr 10, 2019 | Full Review…
"Southern Wild" is a hypnotic bit of cinematic poetry that is as vivid as its lead character's imagination.
Micheal Compton
Beasts [of the Southern Wild] has the contradictory, inevitable, glorious feel of a myth, a folk tale about a place that never was but is everywhere, in a time that's entirely now and could have been decades ago. Feb 27, 2019 | Full Review…
Beasts [of the Southern Wild] has the contradictory, inevitable, glorious feel of a myth, a folk tale about a place that never was but is everywhere, in a time that's entirely now and could have been decades ago.
Molly Templeton
The movie's mad gusto is truly infectious. Feb 22, 2019 | Full Review…
The movie's mad gusto is truly infectious.
J. Hoberman
Like some wonderful kind of live-action Studio Ghibli effort that has somehow found its way across the Pacific and onto America's ravaged, weather-beaten doorstep. Feb 4, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Like some wonderful kind of live-action Studio Ghibli effort that has somehow found its way across the Pacific and onto America's ravaged, weather-beaten doorstep.
Daniel Green
[Beasts of the Southern Wild] brings a way of life into focus, albeit through the repeated use of the shaky cam. Dec 28, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
[Beasts of the Southern Wild] brings a way of life into focus, albeit through the repeated use of the shaky cam.
Kelly Jane Torrance
The movie gave us something big and real... the sense of forced uplift I got from the swelling music and pushy voice-over actually does reflect how a child thinks and responds to tragedy. Aug 7, 2018 | Full Review…
The movie gave us something big and real... the sense of forced uplift I got from the swelling music and pushy voice-over actually does reflect how a child thinks and responds to tragedy.
Eve Tushnet
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