SummaryMoonlight 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
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
99
User score
Generally Favorable
7.1
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
100% Positive
53 Reviews
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Feb 16, 2017
100
Bold in ambition and delicate in execution, it will break your heart and then piece it back together.
Oct 27, 2016
100
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
71% Positive
1442 Ratings
1442 Ratings
11% Mixed
225 Ratings
225 Ratings
18% Negative
358 Ratings
358 Ratings
Jul 24, 2025
10
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.
Jan 15, 2025
10
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+
Oct 6, 2016
100
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
88
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
63
What tends to right Moonlight, even when Barry Jenkins's filmmaking drifts into indulgence, is the strength of its actors.
Sep 8, 2022
6
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
Mar 8, 2019
3
In my opinion, another highly rated movie by critics for its subject matter rather than the quality of the movie. I found it boring and difficult to get into.
Production Company:
- A24
- Plan B Entertainment
- Pastel
Release Date:Oct 21, 2016
Duration:1 h 51 m
Rating:R
Tagline:This is the story of a lifetime.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 3 Wins & 14 Nominations
