MONDELLO: A moment of physical intimacy there on the beach confirms something for Chiron. "Moonlight" is both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story. But the world won't let this kid be, ...

Throughout Moonlight Chiron’s character maintains a sense of childlike behavior that carries into his adulthood. “There are these sort of lonely frames that exist, even when he’s a grown man.

Ashton Sanders as a teenaged Chiron in 'Moonlight' (Photo by David Bornfriend, courtesy of A24) Making only his second feature since 2008's Medicine for Melancholy, Jenkins captures experience in ...

A huge hit at the Toronto International Film Festival, MOONLIGHT follows the boy, Chiron, from age nine to adulthood. The film evokes BOYHOOD, although this one was not filmed with one actor in the ...

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”), who lives in ...

The only criticism I have of “Moonlight” isn’t really a criticism at all — it’s more of a wish this had been a trilogy instead of a single ...

Like Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Moonlight traces the life of its complex main character, Chiron. He makes his debut on screen as a 10-year-old, played by Alex Hibbert. We see him chased by a ...

From the beginning, Chiron is reserved, ... “Moonlight.” Like in Lamar’s rap-soul-funk-jazz opus, Gardiner’s soulful track signifies the creation of groundbreaking art.

Moonlight is about Chiron, an African American man coming of age—and coming to understand his sexuality—in Reagan-era Miami. Whenever food appears throughout the almost two-hour film, viewers ...