The Lincoln is excited to screen one of the best reviewed films of the year so far. Don't miss this one!
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
Starring: Dwight Henry, Gina Montana, Jovan Hathaway, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Nicholas Clark, Pamela Harper, Quvenzhané Wallis
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Reviews:
86% on the Tomatometer
'Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantastical, emotionally powerful journey and a strong case of filmmaking that values imagination over money.'
Tampa Bay Times
Reviewed by: Steve Persall
Hushpuppy carries a lot of emotional weight on her slender shoulders, and Wallis makes one wish to climb into the screen to lighten the load with an embrace. Do not miss this performance, or this quietly astonishing, life-affirming masterpiece.
Miami Herald
Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
It's a beautiful, strange tone poem about childhood and innocence, set in a strange but still recognizable world where the polar ice caps are melting, crayfish shacks float down rivers and enormous aurochs, an extinct breed of bison, are sloughing their way toward our tiny, adorable narrator.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Reviewed by: Calvin Wilson
A cinematic miracle, a film that carves out a vivid space that has nothing to do with wizards or extraterrestrials, but quite a lot to say about the fantastical creatures that roam through the humanity in us all.
The New Yorker
Reviewed by: David Denby
It's hard not to see Beasts as an expression of post-affluent America. And here's the surprise: the grinding Great Recession may never offer up a movie as happy, or as inspired by poetry and dream, as this one.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
Shot in Louisiana, with non-professional actors and apparently set-designed from a junkyard, Beasts of the Southern Wild marks one of the most auspicious American directorial debuts in years.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Reviewed by: Steven Rea
Beasts of the Southern Wild transports us to places that are peculiar and dangerous and magical, and makes us feel weirdly at home.
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Reviewed by: Mike Scott
Beasts of the Southern Wild is not only a wonderful story -- a portrait of intestinal fortitude in the face of enormous change -- but it's our story, forged in our own shared recent history and dripping with flood, sweat and tears.
San Francisco Chronicle
Reviewed by: Amy Biancolli
The film is its own beast, and it's a rare one.
Boston Globe
Reviewed by: Ty Burr
She's (Hushpuppy) trying to make sense of this world, and the movie, pitched between realism and fable, is the story of how she finally does. That balance is the key to the movie's magic.
Chicago Reader
Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
"The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right," declares Hushpuppy, the fierce, nappy-headed girl at the center of this extraordinary southern gothic.
Chicago Sun-Times
Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
Sometime miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius. Beasts of the Southern Wild is one of the year's best films.
New York Post
Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
The best reason to wade into this (let's be honest) challenging but hugely rewarding film is Quvenzhané Wallis.
Wall Street Journal
Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
There's no trace of calculation, only artistic ambitions and hopes that have come to fruition in the year's finest film thus far.
Rolling Stone
Reviewed by: Peter Travers
There's no way you won't be captivated by Wallis, chosen ahead of 3,500 candidates to play the tiny folk hero who narrates the story. Her performance in this deceptively small film is a towering achievement.
Entertainment Weekly
Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie is small, local, and idiosyncratic. Then again, it's also a thing of beauty and originality - and for that, sustained huzzahs are in order.
Los Angeles Times
Reviewed by: Betsy Sharkey
Director Benh Zeitlin and his co-writer Lucy Alibar, a playwright whose "Juicy and Delicious" was the inspiration, have created characters that are wondrously indelible, distinctive of voice and set them inside a story that will unleash a devastating hurricane, and a flood of emotions, before it is done.
The New York Times
Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
This movie is a blast of sheer, improbable joy, a boisterous, thrilling action movie with a protagonist who can hold her own alongside Katniss Everdeen, Princess Merida and the other brave young heroines of 2012.
Time
Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
Mark down the date: June 27. That's when American moviegoers will see this perfect storm of a film, and the tiny force of nature that is Quvenzhané Wallis.
Variety
Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
A stunning debut that finds its dandelion-haired heroine fighting rising tides and fantastic creatures in a mythic battle against modernity.
The Hollywood Reporter
Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
It's very much an art piece, to be sure, but it feels like a genuine one that, while meditated, speaks fluently and truly for the place, people and culture it so indelibly depicts.
Admission Prices*:
General: $9.00
Seniors, Students and Active Military: $8.00
Members: $7.00
Children 12 and under: $6.00
Bargain Matinee Prices (all shows before 6:00pm)
General: $7.00
Members: $5:00
Children 12 and under: $4.00
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