by Francis Friel

Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack has been the subject of some very weird scrutiny since it debuted at Sundance earlier this year (where it won the Grand Jury Prize). Questions about exactly when and where and how Moselle met the Angulo brothers, the six imprisoned filmmaker siblings at the center of the film, have been hounding the film since day one. And while a lot of the questions seem to have some merit to them, and I had questions of my own while watching the film, I’m inclined to give all this stuff a pass, because this is simply one of the best movies out there to deal with outsider artists on their own turf.