Jenkins portrays a world so often fetishized and reduced to its most violent outcomes from the inside, with tenderness and Wong Kar-wai’s influence on his cinematic sleeve.

| Jun 21, 2023

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

| Feb 17, 2021

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

| Mar 21, 2018

"Moonlight" arrives as a gift, one worth keeping - and regifting.

| Feb 16, 2018

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

| Aug 15, 2017

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

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 22, 2017

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

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 26, 2017

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 19, 2017

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 17, 2017

From the start Moonlight announces itself as something different entirely.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 17, 2017

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

| Feb 16, 2017

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 feels they exist outside the world they've been born into.

| Feb 16, 2017

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2017

Moonlight is at its most eloquent when its subtext is soft-spoken.

| Feb 16, 2017

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 16, 2017

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 16, 2017

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2017

An intimate and haunting drama.

| Feb 2, 2017

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 1, 2017

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

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 27, 2017