Review of Moonlight (2016) by Corwin_Of_Amber — 01 Mar 2017

The received “wisdom” on Moonlight, a film about gay love in the black ghetto, is that it is “necessary” and “important”. It is an “urgent” and “relevant” examination of forbidden attraction in a world, “the streets”, that is largely hostile to gay men.

Only, relevant to whom? Certainly not the audience. Most will be straight, white, middle class. Nor is it particularly “urgent”: the story has been told countless times, against countless backdrops.

So, all critics are wrong. Very, very boring film.