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July 24, 2012 Arts & Events » Movies

Movie Review: "Beasts of the Southern Wild." 

A child's imagination floods this sometimes confounding film.

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Stories about poor people are rare at the movies, especially those told from their point of view. "Beasts of the Southern Wild" is rarer still: a movie about the poor unfolding almost entirely from a child's perspective, determined to convey the…

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