The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2012 features the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. Directed and co-written by Benh Zeitlin and starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild was nominated for four Academy Awards.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/beasts-of-the-southern-wild-2012), Ty Burr in the Boston Globe (http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2012/07/06/beasts_of_the_southern_wild_review_a_four_star_fable/), and Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune (https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-mov-0703-beasts-southern-wild-20120704-column.html).

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