Moonlight

Moonlight displays the kind of empathy and humanity that we desperately need right now.

Every year, we get only a few of these, movies that come out of nowhere, that are different, unexpected and wonderfully right. «Moonlight» is...

If you think art should challenge us, then you will embrace writer-director Barry Jenkins' exquisitely crafted drama Moonlight. It’s a t...

It is thrilling, sensuous stuff.

Moonlight is a film so measured, so delicate and powerful, that it proves to be sensitive in ways most movies aren’t, even in ways most...

Deeply affecting, Moonlight is a small, beautifully told story that resonates well beyond the time spent in the theater.

A triptych illustrating the tidal ebb and flow of identity, Jenkins’s film is awash in dreaminess, while still examining the life of one youn...

An elegiac, raw, painful film that explores the strangeness of growing up gay in Miami’s black community in the 1980s.

A deeply personal and visually mesmerizing drama that just might be the year’s best movie.

Moonlight is hard to classify; even harder to describe, in terms of its considerable achievements.

«Moonlight» is gorgeous and yet bleak, uplifting and yet sobering, exhilarating but also grounded in some unshakable realities.

Is a portrait of life written with cut-to-the-bone honesty. That’s what makes Moonlight so arresting

«Moonlight» arrives as a gift, one worth keeping – and regifting.

[Moonlight’s] uncanny blend of strong visuals, social issues, sexuality themes and urban life is a potent mix.

I doubt that I will see a better film than Moonlight this year.

A nuclear-fission-strength heartbreaker. It’s made up of moments so slight and incidental they’re sub-molecular – but they release...

«Moonlight» is a film of rare grace - a tender, compassionate, restrained look at a life lived in the shadows.

A poem of light and colour, of faces and the play of physique, of passions revealed by glance or gesture.

From the start Moonlight announces itself as something different entirely.

A rarely seen portrait of what it really means to be a black gay man in America today. It’s a stunning achievement.

Moonlight is mesmerically, sometimes swooningly, shot and scored, and well-acted all round too.

The performances are all very good indeed, and the film’s serious, concerned tone suits the subject matter.

Moonlight surprised me. Then it rattled me to my core. And finally, it nestled snuggly inside my heart.

It’s so good it may restore your faith in cinema.

Jenkins and McCraney have artfully cobbled together something that is impressionistic and wondrous, like a compendium of half-remembered memor...

A question is posed to the main character of Barry Jenkins’s wondrous, superbly acted new film, Moonlight: «Who is you, man?»

A genre-defying film. Its visual splendour belies its tough, surface-level subject matter, while the performances pull us deep below that surface w...

One of the year’s best films, one of those movies that sneaks up on you and packs a wallop in the end.

Moonlight is a film that is both lyrical and deeply grounded in its character work, a balancing act that’s breathtaking to behold.

Hype would bruise Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, which is so delicate in its touch that the usual superlatives sound unusually shrill. It’s...

Truly, madly, deeply: There’s magic in this Moonlight.

Although Barry Jenkins' film is indeed about the struggles and difficulties of a person embracing his culturally reviled sexuality, the story...

It’s going to take something spectacular to come along and knock Moonlight off its perch because it may very well be the best movie you&rsquo...

The work of a major film-maker and not just a promising one.

Through each of their performances, and the rich narrative, Jenkins delivers an authentic, necessary statement of black male self-love.

This is a quiet, modestly scaled film – a character study made by a filmmaker blessed with unusual amounts of curiosity about his ch...

It’s a coming-of-age story that admits no one ever truly comes of age. We make choices and change shapes.

Barry Jenkins' Moonlight is a deeply personal, deeply expressive film, unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.

Cinema has been in and around this area time and time again, but Moonlight still feels abundantly fresh and endlessly imaginative.

Jenkins mounts no soapboxes and brandishes no manifestos in his attempt to illuminate the inner life of this troubled boy turned teenager turned ma...

You won’t find a more sensitively rendered, evocative, or surprising coming-of-age film than Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight.

Moonlight is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and&n...

One of Moonlight’s remarkable strengths is how completely it avoids preaching, after-school messaging, or pat cinematic answers.

There is so much pain in «Moonlight» that it’s a little hard to breathe at certain moments. But there are others, of connection and rede...

Moonlight may be a quiet, understated gem. But you can expect the buzz surrounding it to become deafening.

The combination of artistry and emotional directness in this film is overwhelming.

Jenkins boils a life down to its decisive moments; a life in three parts is an eloquent and acute summation with Nicholas Britell’s hear...

An indelible portrait of an imperilled life, «Moonlight» is a devastating depiction of masculinity, race and identity. Ambitious in scope but...

Jenkins burrows deep into his characters' pain-seared memories, creating ferociously restrained performances and confrontational yet tender images...

Jenkins' authorial voice is resounding and strong and his determination admirable.

In this film, with minimal plot and dialogue, [Jenkins] brings his camera up close to his characters. Without telling us how to feel, he gives us t...

Leaves you feeling both stripped bare and restored, slightly better prepared to step out and face the world of people around you, with all the conf...

Moonlight moves for a while in heady bursts, like memories rushing back.

«Moonlight» is magic.

We are continually challenged, yet held close to the heart of the story by its romantic lyricism and, most of all, the spacious humanity of its lov...

So few unexploitative movies are made about young black men, especially young black gay men, that the overpraise for this frail, sweet, discursive...

«Moonlight» exerts a tidal pull on your heartstrings, but honestly: It’s better than that.

Barry Jenkins’s excellent Moonlight is a film filled with bittersweet ironies.

This is a deeply compassionate film that not only does astounding work on the being black, being gay front, but is also about anybody who feel...

Easily one of the most personal and most powerful films of the year.

This is a humane movie, one that’s looking to prompt empathy and introspection most of all. On those terms, Moonlight is one of the year...

Barry Jenkins' vital portrait of a South Florida youth revisits the character at three stages in his life, offering rich insights into the con...

Moonlight tells a coming-of-age story in passages, each possessed of enough stand-alone power to operate as a wonderful short film, even...

Jenkins balances raw honesty with dreamy imagery and keeps his narrative loose, riding emotional beats instead of getting trapped inside a fin...

By the end, you may long for a fourth chapter.

[Moonlight recalls] works from filmmakers as varied as Richard Linklater, François Truffaut, Fernando Meirelles, Cheryl Dunye and Spike Lee. But, i...

In its quietly radical grace, it’s a cultural watershed – a work that dismantles all the ways our media view young black men and puts in...

«Moonlight» glows.

What tends to right Moonlight, even when Barry Jenkins’s filmmaking drifts into indulgence, is the strength of its actors.

This is a vivid and tremblingly lived-in portrait of young black manhood and sexuality, rendered with genuine power and grace. I’ve neve...

It just needs to be watched and embraced, as an entirely fresh example of the power that great movies can exert on our lives.

«Moonlight» is a minor miracle, a movie that mines beauty out of the ugliest situations, and a glimmer of hope from heartbreak.

Material that should by rights be harrowing has become, in Jenkins’s hands, euphoric.

A haunting piece of high art.

Barry Jenkins' game-changer about growing up black, gay and alienated in the Miami projects is both intimate and epic. It gets inside your head, ma...

A personal/political triptych which offers keen perspectives on masculinity, queer sexuality, racial identity, and the odd angles at which they int...

Glows like its title.

The story’s power comes from the gaps between words – and an ongoing battle to find the right ones.