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- 2016
- R
- A24
- 1 h 51 m
- 2016
- R
- A24
- 1 h 51 m
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.
Directed By: Barry Jenkins
Written By: Tarell Alvin McCraney, Barry Jenkins
- 2016
- R
- A24
- 1 h 51 m
- 2016
- R
- A24
- 1 h 51 m
Moonlight
7.1
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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.
Directed By: Barry Jenkins
Written By: Tarell Alvin McCraney, Barry Jenkins
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 53 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 53 Critic Reviews
99
100% Positive
53 Reviews
53 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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Bold in ambition and delicate in execution, it will break your heart and then piece it back together.
Happily, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has in Moonlight exactly the kind of small, smart film that the Awards should be recognizing more often. Whether it will actually win is another matter: Jenkins’s script and his direction are bracingly free of the sentimentality Oscar so loves.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,876 User Ratings
7.1
71% Positive
1340 Ratings
1340 Ratings
11% Mixed
198 Ratings
198 Ratings
18% Negative
338 Ratings
338 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 1,876 User Ratings
7.1
71% Positive
1340 Ratings
1340 Ratings
11% Mixed
198 Ratings
198 Ratings
18% Negative
338 Ratings
338 Ratings
Reallyamazing
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It’s a masterpiece — an overused word, but not the wrong one.
Moonlight, the new film from Barry Jenkins, is a nuclear-fission-strength heartbreaker. It’s made up of moments so slight and incidental they’re sub-molecular – but they release enough heat and light to swallow whole cities at a stroke.
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.
What tends to right Moonlight, even when Barry Jenkins's filmmaking drifts into indulgence, is the strength of its actors.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Overrated as hell, not a bad movie, but still. The thing is, liberals get all super exited whenever theres a rando movie featuring mostly non-white and LGBT person
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Production Company
A24,
PASTEL,
Plan B Entertainment
Release Date Oct 21, 2016
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline This is the story of a lifetime.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 3 Wins & 14 Nominations
