The most pivotal scene in Moonlight, a dramatic film that just received six Golden Globe nominations, takes place in our favorite room of any building: the kitchen. Moonlight is about Chiron, an ...

The film throbs with a specific ache, especially in scenes between Chiron and his friend and potential romantic interest Kevin (Jaden Piner/Jharrel Jerome/Andre Holland).

There’s a scene with Chiron and the younger Kevin (Jaden Piner) wrestling in a field that captures something both carefree and tumultuous about that time in any young boy’s life, regardless of ...

So many of this film’s most important scenes take place under the moon, particularly the climax. While so many movies of the so-called “hood genre” end with someone getting shot, “Moonlight” ends with ...

There is a scene in Moonlight in which a small boy is taught by an older companion to float, and then swim, in the dazzling brim of the Miami shore. Both are black; the boy is Chiron, the youngest ...

Chiron is actually portrayed at three ages by three different actors. But to play little Chiron, 12-year-old Alex Hibbert didn’t do the preparation that the other, more experienced performers did.

The story of Moonlight invites the audience to follow the life of a character who’s young, black, queer and who feels so alienated from the world around him that he can’t see himself as he is ...

Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” is another American indie coming-of-age film, but with a big difference. This one is about a poor black boy named Chiron (pronounced “Shy-rone&rdq… ...

Naomie Harris (“Spectre”) carves herself a heart-wrenching arc out of only a handful of scenes as Chiron’s junkie mother, Paula. Jenkins saves his characters from dehumanization because he does not ...

But “Moonlight” answers Chiron’s question with a resounding ‘Yes!’ Jenkins’ subject is black, gay, impoverished and lives with a drug-dependent single mother. But more importantly, his name is Chiron, ...