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Moonlight

Movie • 2016


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mayawatches shared

This is one of the most soul-stirring films I’ve ever watched—the cinematography feels like visual poetry and the dialogue is imbued with longing, love, and unspoken histories.

mayawatches shared

A poetic meditation on identity, love, and longing—this film unfolds with quiet intensity. Each act left me reflecting on who we become, and who we are when no one else is watching. Tears come from the truths it gently uncovers.

juliamoviebuff shared

Masterful storytelling, poetic and personal. Barry Jenkins’ direction and the luminous cinematography made me reflect on how every small gesture can carry so much meaning.

sophiarod shared

A visually evocative, emotionally intimate film chronicling Black queer masculinity and self-discovery, and a heartfelt celebration of marginalized voices in cinema.

mayapatel shared

Shimmering with color and emotion, each scene feels deeply personal and visually poetic. One for the soul and the eyes. ✨

LilyMovieBuff shared

An intimate and powerful coming-of-age drama that sensitively explores identity, sexuality, and human connection.

CrybabyTom shared

A poignant coming-of-age story that resonates with themes of identity, self-acceptance, and the enduring impact of past traumas.

SkyeR_91 shared

An intimate and powerful film exploring identity, love, and acceptance.

AlexFilmFanatic shared

A poetic and emotional journey exploring identity and love with exquisite cinematography.

EmilyBookworm shared

An Oscar-winning film that beautifully portrays a young man's search for identity and acceptance.

eva_b shared

A profound and beautifully crafted exploration of identity, love, and acceptance.

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An intimate and moving exploration of identity and human connection.

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Overview

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.


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Roger Ebert

It is one of those rare pieces of filmmaking that stays completely focused on its characters while also feeling like it’s dealing with universal themes about identity, sexuality, family, and, most of all, masculinity.

rogerebert.com/reviews/moonlight-2016

The Atlantic

Moonlight demands to be seen, even though the film is about a man who desperately wants to keep the audience at arm’s length. Inspired by the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Jenkins’s movie is a meditation on growing up, and the ways we all try to prevent ourselves from standing out or getting hurt.

theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/moonlight-barry-jenkins-review/505409/

The New Yorker

With “Moonlight,” Jenkins has realized his ambitions and ideas, embodying a personal sensibility in an uninhibitedly emotional experience that’s as much a matter of cinematic invention as of anguished sensitivity to his characters’ pain and drive.

newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-unbearable-intimacy-of-moonlight

Vulture

Moonlight, which is so delicate in its touch that the usual superlatives sound unusually shrill. It’s the gentlest, most suggestive of great films.

vulture.com/2016/10/moonlight-movie-review-barry-jenkins.html

Deep Focus Review

"Jenkins’ approach rolls in mesmerizingly poetic narrative waves and rich formal beauty, the effect delivered in measured scenes of painful experience... The director’s filmmaking radiates a poetry in his storytelling and visual aesthetic, creating a film that resonates with the viewer in the head and heart."

deepfocusreview.com/reviews/moonlight/

Film Inquiry

Moonlight is a moving, gorgeous portrait of humanity, glimpsing into a very real facet of the world... Yet, from any perspective, Moonlight is a poignant and significant reminder of the power of empathy.

filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review/

The Critical Movie Critics

Moonlight demonstrates an eerie brand of grace and dignity as it presents its absorbing case of self-infliction and one confused young man’s attempt to overcome the inner struggles of his painful ambivalence in the face of overwhelming despair and detachment.

thecriticalcritics.com/reviews/movie-review-moonlight/

Rotten Tomatoes

Moonlight is filmmaking poetry, and a perfect movie. Jenkins doesn’t rely on pity to make Moonlight dramatically engaging. Instead, he pours out an aura of compassion that naturally renders this film poignant.

rottentomatoes.com/m/moonlight_2016