I remember rushing with Jeffrey Wells to an early morning screening of “We The Animals” at Sundance. Why? Because Eric Kohn's IndieWire rave from the previous day's screening, in which he graded the film a rare A, had mentioned that it was "this year's ‘Moonlight.’” Of course, that wasn't the case. The film barely shares any similarities to Barry Jenkins's film. No, what director Justin Torres' film actually steals from is  Malick naturalism, or maybe even Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild."