Moonlight's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
Barry Jenkins follows the trace of a tragic childhood in his second and powerful film.
Screen Daily
Ambitious in scope but precise in its execution, this deceptively small-scale character piece reverberates with compassion and insight.
The Playlist
Like Brokeback Mountain a decade ago, Moonlight is a piece of art that will transform lives long after it leaves theaters
Time Out
Moonlight takes the pain of growing up and turns it into hardened scars and private caresses. This film is, without a doubt, the reason we go to the movies: to understand, to come closer, to ache, hopefully with another.
Entertainment Weekly
Easily one of the most personal and most powerful films of the year.
The New Yorker
Jenkins burrows deep into his characters? pain-seared memories, creating ferociously restrained performances.
Cinemanía
A masterpiece? We don't know and we don't care: we're too busy waiting for the next movie from Barry Jenkins.
Variety
A beautifully intimate character study that argues in no uncertain terms that the African-American identity is far too complex to be reduced to the flimsy stereotypes so often presented on-screen.
The Hollywood Reporter
Shines as moonlight(...) While the fundamental nature of that central question gives this exquisite character study universality, the film also brings infinite nuance and laser-like specificity to its portrait of African-American gay male experience.
Fotogramas
One of the movies that turn on the spirits of a certain sleeping mass of sensitive spectators, who activate the detonators of superlatives eager to be wielded, they call for unanimity and engender entire proletarians of converts.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote