Moonlight
2016Drama · Coming of Age112 min
A Black gay masterpiece that also happens to be perfectly made.
Three chapters, one man, and the best film on this list.
Our take
Chiron at three ages — child, teenager, adult — growing up Black, poor and gay in Liberty City, Miami. Barry Jenkins gives each act its own colour and its own actor, and the through-line is how much of himself Chiron has to bury to survive, and what it costs to dig any of it back up.
The beach scene is the one everyone talks about, but the film is really about the diner in the third act: two grown men, a jukebox, and a conversation that takes twenty minutes to get to one sentence. It won Best Picture in the most chaotic way possible and deserved it without the drama.
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Scores
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Jibbi Score — 5 out of 5 rainbows. A Black gay masterpiece that also happens to be perfectly made.
Also recorded
- Rotten Tomatoes — 98%, as recorded on Wikidata — Rotten Tomatoes has no public API, so this is the openly licensed figure rather than a live reading.
- TMDB — 7.4 out of 10 from 7,706 votes, refreshed daily.
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The plot, officially
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.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.
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