Moonlight is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, with a story by Tarell Alvin McCraney. The film stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali.
Movie Details :
- Directed by : Barry Jenkins
- Produced by : Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
- Screenplay by : Barry Jenkins
- Story by : Tarell Alvin McCraney
- Starring : Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali
- Music by : Nicholas Britell
- Cinematography : James Laxton
- Edited by : Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon,
- Production company : A24, Plan B Entertainment, Pastel Productions
- Distributed by : A24
Summary :
Moonlight is 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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Moonlight Movie Review :
Moonlight (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By New York Magazine
Hype would bruise Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, which is so delicate in its touch that the usual superlatives sound unusually shrill. It’s the gentlest, most suggestive of great films.
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Moonlight (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Time
A coming-of-age movie, and a love story, that 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 confounding challenges they present. There’s not much more you can ask from a movie.
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Moonlight (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By RogerEbert.com
Moonlight is a film that is both lyrical and deeply grounded in its character work, a balancing act that’s breathtaking to behold. 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.
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Moonlight (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The Guardian
It’s a thrilling, deeply necessary work that opens up a much-needed and rarely approached on-screen conversation about the nature of gay masculinity.
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Rating : 5/5
Moonlight (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By New York Daily News
Even when the storytelling falters – several crucial scenes take place in between the various segments, with major events happening off-screen – Jenkins’ sharp eye and his film’s beautiful cinematography keeps us watching.
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Rating : 4/5
Moonlight (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By The Hollywood Reporter
Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight pulls you into its introspective protagonist’s world from the start and transfixes throughout as it observes, with uncommon poignancy and emotional perceptiveness, his roughly two-decade path to find a definitive answer to the question, “Who am I?”
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Moonlight (2016) Hollywood Movie Review By Critics
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