Fresh
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's most gripping viewing experiences.
David Sims, The Atlantic
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Moonlight
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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Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
So few unexploitative movies are made about young black men, especially young black gay men, that the overpraise for this frail, sweet, discursive fantasia is understandable -- and forgivable.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
It just needs to be watched and embraced, as an entirely fresh example of the power that great movies can exert on our lives.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
Barry Jenkins's excellent Moonlight is a film filled with bittersweet ironies.
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
Fresh
"Moonlight" is gorgeous and yet bleak, uplifting and yet sobering, exhilarating but also grounded in some unshakable realities.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
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