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.
Moonlight is about a young African American man and his coming of age, presented as three stages in his life, like the panels of a triptych. The film has power and generosity, giving such full access to his thoughts and feelings that it’s…
Our critic A.O. Scott says this film about a young black man’s coming of age is both a disarmingly personal film and an urgent social document. ... To describe “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s second feature, as a movie about growing up poor…
“Who is you, man?” Dramatic film has long been fascinated with issues of identity, but they’ve rarely been explored with the degree of eloquence and heartbreaking beauty as in Barry Jenkins ’ masterful “Moonlight,” one of the essential…
