Beasts of the Southern Wild

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Jun. 29, 2012 Entertainment

There isn't a trace of calculation in Benh Zeitlin's debut feature, only hopes and artistic ambitions that have come to fruition in the year's finest film so far.

Beasts of the Southern Wild evokes life in a surpassingly strange corner of Louisiana through the ecstatic spirit of a six-year-old black girl named Hushpuppy.

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