The Christian Sciene MonitorMuch film festival praise has been showered on “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and I wish I could join in.
TelegraphSix-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis is excellent in this magic-realist tale inspired by Hurricane Katrina
The GuardianThis Malick-inspired response to Hurricane Katrina, about a six-year-old bayou-dweller and her father, has ambition and poet...
TelegraphDirector Benh Zeitlin's debut, which won the Camera d’Or at Cannes festival, plunges into magic realism with unmissable resu...
Total FilmDespite its hard-scrabble setting, eco-gloominess and dystopian story, this dark fairytale is engagingly vivid and life-affi...
Rolling StoneJourneys, shot on the last two nights of Young's 2011 solo world tour, is essential Neil Young.
USA TodayNeil Young Journeys underscores the continuing relevance of Young's artistry over the last 45 years and why he is regarded a...
New York PostThe nicest thing I can think of to say about the doc Neil Young Journeys is that at least it isn't in 3-D.
The Boston GlobeFor true believers, Neil Young Journeys is a visit with a still-vital friend. For the merely curious, it's proof that there'...
The New York TimesThis movie is a blast of sheer, improbable joy, a boisterous, thrilling action movie with a protagonist who can hold her own...
USA TodayIt is a beautifully acted, gorgeously shot work of potent emotional resonance, with a superbly evocative musical score.
Los Angeles TimesAn extraordinary new drama whose fierceness, like its 6-year-old heroine Hushpuppy, grabs on and won't let go.
SlateZeitlin's adoring gaze on the Bathtubbers' chaotic-yet-joyous way of life smacks of anthropological voyeurism: Rousseau's "n...
Wall Street JournalThere's no trace of calculation, only artistic ambitions and hopes that have come to fruition in the year's finest film thus...
New York Daily NewsThe images recall Terrence Malick, but the film fills "atmosphere" into dry narrative holes where a story should reside.
New York PostMovies that mix magic and gritty realism almost never work , but Zeitlin, who is making an auspicious feature directing debu...
Salon ArtsSpielberg will love this film, if he doesn't already. Zeitlin's ability to create a believable world out of seemingly imposs...
The New YorkerZeitlin's as enraptured by his own imagery as by the poetry of the settings but never finds a distinctive form for his ambit...
San Francisco ChronicleIts fertility and its terror stem from the same truth: To the young mind, there is no sealed barrier cleaving reality from f...
Washington PostA film that plays less like a grounded, human-scaled story than a dilettantish piece of cultural tourism.
The Philadelphia InquirerBeasts of the Southern Wild is like outsider art: patched together with found materials, conjured up by untrained artists (t...
FirstShowingBeasts of the Southern Wild is a film about finding ones strength so that when the beasts of the world, whether real or fant...
Chicago Sun-TimesCut off from the mainland, surrounded by rising waters, the Bathtub is a desolate wilderness of poverty where a small commun...
Entertainment WeeklyThe movie is small, local, and idiosyncratic. Then again, it's also a thing of beauty and originality — and for that, sustai...
ReelViewsContained within Beasts of the Southern Wild are moments of fragile, understated magic that emphasize the relationship that ...
Hollywood ReporterAn exceptional American independent feature that deserves the best efforts to tap audiences that would surely embrace it.
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Partial Film Information
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Writer: Lucy Alibar
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry
Release: June 27, 2012
Writer: Lucy Alibar
Studio: Fox Searchlight
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry
Release: June 27, 2012
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