‘Rodents of Unusual Size’ is the Thoughtful Swamp Rat Movie You Didn’t Know You Wanted

For the uninitiated, a nutria is a cat-sized semiaquatic rodent with Cheeto-orange gopher teeth that looks like someone saw a beaver and thought, “But what if we made it uglier?”

Brought to Louisiana from their native Argentina by the fur industry in the 1930s and escaping into the wild soon after, their population numbers were kept (somewhat) under cont…