Review of Moonlight (2016) by Kevin B — 16 Aug 2017

It succeeds by being pretty much unique in its cool portrayal of a topic rarely treated this way, it has many tender moments of varying degrees, and is all beautifully filmed. However, it offers no glimmer of real hope or optimism, and utterly fails to address the betrayal so brutally thrown in front of us - as though making a hard life look good is enough.

Almost every scene, on its own, is excellent, but the story they tell together is stereotyped and very problematic. And there's some very over done shaky-cam close-up footage.