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Critics Consensus: Moonlight uses one man's story to offer a remarkable and brilliantly crafted look at lives too rarely seen in cinema.
Critic Consensus: Moonlight uses one man's story to offer a remarkable and brilliantly crafted look at lives too rarely seen in cinema.
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"Moonlight" arrives as a gift, one worth keeping - and regifting.
The combination of artistry and emotional directness in this film is overwhelming.
An intimate and haunting drama.
Although Barry Jenkins' film is indeed about the struggles and difficulties of a person embracing his culturally reviled sexuality, the story is universal in scope and intent.
The indie drama touches on themes of race, sexuality and isolation in ways that are rarely depicted in cinema.
Moonlight is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and a poem written in light, music and vivid human faces.
What writer/director [Barry] Jenkins has done here is capture a small experience and endow it with a universality while still maintaining its unique perspective. It is an astonishing feat.
Like with Linklater's film, the cumulative details figure into the Moonlight's indelible powers, inspiring some of the most richly composed imagery you'll find in contemporary American cinema.
In the hands of director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, who wrote the theater piece "Moonlight" is based on, it's cinematic poetry birthed from the sea, where learning to swim is akin to a baptism.
The actors and this story are at the heart of the film.
In times of Ferguson, in the times that Eric Garner lived, it is radical to see Moonlight's Chiron still have enough love to give to Kevin.
...holistically beautiful. Its cinematography, its performances, its narrative, its ideas, its moments-there is an aura of empathy and glory surrounding all of it.
Mahershala Ali stars as Chiron's guardian in this heartbreaking drama of discrimination and forbidden love. Wish he would've been more involved in the rest of the story.
Super Reviewer
Moonlight's excellent structure in storytelling, its powerful performances and thematic vision really emphasizes the film's sense of self-discovery. A unique presentation, filled with a superb use of music, colors, cinematography, and combined with its sheer drama makes this a monumentally notable tale of a lifetime that audiences can empathize with. 4/5
"Moonlight" is captivating, poignant, disturbing, ugly, beautiful -- and most of all, "Moonlight" is radiant. With excellent acting and superb directing, "Moonlight" tells a tale of human identity emerging from a world steeped in vulnerability, fear, isolation and the cycles of abuse visited most harshly upon oppressed communities. It's is a thoughtful work of art well worth seeing.
This film includes great direction, scoring and cinematography, and stand out performances by Naomi Harris and Ashton Sanders. Despite all of that, and it's relevant and "important" subject matter, it is still the movie equivalent of Rohypnol and left no impression on me at all. The bullying scenes were a little too "after-school special" and fake, and its snail-like pace really tests the audience. This film will get faux love, genuine love, faux criticism and genuine criticism, so it may be hard to determine if you should go see it. I say, unless you have a particular interest, save your time and money.
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