In Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight (which just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival), we watch three chapters in the life of an African-American Miami man named Chiron: In the first ...

New movie “Moonlight” is loosely ... film’s scenes of marginalization critique real-life assumptions made about members of the LGBTQ community which other movies often reinforce. Chiron is ...

Barry Jenkins’ introspective coming-of-age drama Moonlight has been mentioned alongside Brokeback Mountain , Weekend and Keep the Lights On as one of the great gay movies.

The extraordinary independent drama "Moonlight" is one of those, a minor miracle of a movie that arrives in local theaters Friday (Nov. 4) as one of the finest films of 2016.

“Moonlight” is a movie for exactly two people. The first is Barry Jenkins, ... In “Moonlight’s” first chapter, Chiron and Kevin are playing a game with other boys in an open field.

There is a scene in Moonlight in which a small boy is taught by an older companion to float, and then swim, in the dazzling brim of the Miami shore. Both are black; the boy is Chiron, the youngest ...

“Moonlight” was, no contest, the best movie I’ve seen all year. Granted 2016 hasn’t exactly been a gold-star year, but “Moonlight” could be up there any year. ... The film follows Chiron, starting ...

But what is essential in “Moonlight” is how the characters feel and how we come to love them and, more vitally, want love for them. Poor, lucky local movie-goers.

The movie unfolds in three acts during distinct periods in Chiron’s life — as a young boy, a teen and an adult — and the themes ripple out, giving viewers plenty to relate to: the loneliness ...

Barry Jenkins' Moonlight is a story of a black life uniquely mattering in movies. Not as a crusader for justice, although eventually there's that to be discovered. Not as an entertainer or ...

The only criticism I have of “Moonlight” isn’t really a criticism at all — it’s more of a wish this had been a trilogy instead of a single ...

When the movie gets to the third and final act, Chiron is musclebound and wearing gold-plated grills over his teeth. We think maybe he’s shaken all the issues of his past life.