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Moonlight
Winner of three Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor - Mahershala Ali, and Best Writing Adapted Screenplay.
A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, director Barry Jenkins? staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.
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98% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes | #1 Best Rated Movie of 2016 on Metacritic
"Touching and disturbing, avoiding clichés, shattering stereotypes and succeeding from every angle." - Star Tribune
"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. - Variety
"Jenkins' look at an alienated child who struggles as he enters young adulthood is a beautiful, intimate portrait." - Indiewire
"Magical, majestic... a stunning portrait of young, black gay life." - Los Angeles Times
"'Moonlight' is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and a poem written in light, music and vivid human faces." - The New York Times
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