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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: Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney
Moonlight
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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: Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney
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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
0 Reviews
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Feb 16, 2017
Bold in ambition and delicate in execution, it will break your heart and then piece it back together.
Oct 27, 2016
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 2,010 User Ratings
7.1
71% Positive
1429 Ratings
1429 Ratings
11% Mixed
223 Ratings
223 Ratings
18% Negative
358 Ratings
358 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 2,010 User Ratings
7.1
71% Positive
1429 Ratings
1429 Ratings
11% Mixed
223 Ratings
223 Ratings
18% Negative
358 Ratings
358 Ratings
Jul 24, 2025
An absolute classic. A haunting yet stunningly beautiful story of coming of age and finding out who you are when your whole world is stacked against you. So pathetic that homophobic and racist morons are on here just trying to bring down the user score. Get a life. Go watch something else, you bunch of snowflakes.
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Jan 15, 2025
It was an absolutely brilliant film. Characters were deep and the plot was original even when initially it did not seem this way. The acta breakup was great. A+
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Oct 6, 2016
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.
Dec 9, 2016
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.
Sep 25, 2016
What tends to right Moonlight, even when Barry Jenkins's filmmaking drifts into indulgence, is the strength of its actors.
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Sep 8, 2022
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
- Plan B Entertainment
- PASTEL
Release Date Oct 21, 2016
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline This is the story of a lifetime.
Website http://moonlight-movie.com/
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 3 Wins & 14 Nominations
