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The Beasts of the Southern Wild

February 2020

  • Devin France and Benh Zeitlin on the set of Wendy

    The problem with Wendy: how did an Oscar-nominated director get it so wrong?

    After breaking out with Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin has stumbled with his misjudged take on Peter Pan

January 2020

  • Wendy film still from Sundance film festival

    Wendy review – Peter Pan fantasy that never grows up into an interesting film

    Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin returns with an overlong and sometimes excruciating update of the Pan story

January 2017

  • A visionary gleam … Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012).

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    Spoiler alerts: the five best climate-change films

    Hollywood – loyal to its eco-sceptic audiences in middle America – has always been frosty towards environmental movies. Here are the most prescient exceptions to the rule

August 2015

  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

    Box office analysis: US
    Arthouse blues: why did indie films have such a terrible summer?

    Dope, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, failed to become ‘this year’s Boyhood’ with Blockbusters instead leading the way
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