The best A24 movies show why the indie company has garnered a following over the past few years, with some of the greatest including Lady Bird and Moonlight.

It was Moonlight's time. As in the movie version, the play followed main character Chiron over three periods in his life, but those timelines were interwoven throughout.

Chiron’s mother, Paula (Naomie Harris), is a tremendously interesting character. She begins the film being portrayed as a quite neglectful parent struggling very severely with addiction.

Ashton Sanders, who plays the teenage Chiron, was cast first; Trevante Rhodes, who plays the adult incarnation known as “Black,” came second; and 10-year-old Alex Hibbert, who played the aptly ...

McCraney discussed the adult Chiron with an unfaltering sense of familiarity. Interesting—Jenkins conceived this character in full, as an extension of McCraney’s original script. “For the third story, ...

Three years later and two consecutive watches later, “Moonlight” still triumphs, not only in its imagery but also in portraying unbounded queering of masculinity over time.

Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning drama, is as much a romance as it is a coming-of-age story. Told in three chapters, it’s the tale of one withdrawn boy with three names—Little, Chiron ...

In the film Moonlight, the second part highlights the social pressures that teenage Chiron endures. After years of isolation due to his mother’s neglect and torment at the hands of peers because ...