You want an unadulterated, neatly packaged expression of pride? See Beasts of the Southern Wild. And even if you don't want that, you should still see Benh Zeitlin's arresting first film. Gorgeous, poignant and plainspoken in its achievement of both so as to come off as humble, this movie exists to make adverbs modify…

Here's the synopsis for Benh Zeitlin's critically acclaimed debut film Beasts of the Southern Wild, as penned by the Sundance Film Festival, where it recently picked up the Grand Jury Prize: