Don’t get it wrong, “Boyhood” was excellent, but “Moonlight” is far different. The film follows Chiron, starting with his life as a young boy in a bad neighborhood in Miami, eventually progressing to ...

Barry Jenkins' coming-of-age drama was a revelatory cinematic experience, featuring an all-Black cast, soul-shattering ...

Throughout Moonlight Chiron’s character maintains a sense ... a sense of loneliness that he’s still struggling with as an adult and still permeate the visual language that we were using ...

We conclude with the adult Chiron (Trevante Rhodes), bruised and ... But this is also the point: Moonlight isn’t Boyhood. Moonlight identifies sexual awakening with spiritual healing, or at ...

Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child, Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a ...

Alex Hibbert, who plays the young Chiron on "Moonlight." Credit: Brian Ach/Invision/AP As a kid, Little's peers call him the (other) f-word and he doesn't know why, nor is he old enough to know ...