Don’t get it wrong, “Boyhood” was excellent, but “Moonlight” is far different. The film follows Chiron, starting with his life as a young boy in a bad neighborhood in Miami, eventually progressing to ...

Throughout Moonlight Chiron’s character maintains a sense ... a sense of loneliness that he’s still struggling with as an adult and still permeate the visual language that we were using ...

Barry Jenkins' coming-of-age drama was a revelatory cinematic experience, featuring an all-Black cast, soul-shattering ...

Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a ...

We conclude with the adult Chiron (Trevante Rhodes), bruised and ... But this is also the point: Moonlight isn’t Boyhood. Moonlight identifies sexual awakening with spiritual healing, or at ...

Alex Hibbert, who plays the young Chiron on "Moonlight." Credit: Brian Ach/Invision/AP As a kid, Little's peers call him the (other) f-word and he doesn't know why, nor is he old enough to know ...