Familiar moments, freed from exploitative cliche, suffused with humanity.
Moonlight is up for 8 Oscars nominations this year, including Best Picture. Read our review of the film below.
Ever get left speechless? Hear, see, touch, or taste something so rare that you don’t want to bruise its petals with your clumsy analysis? That’s how I feel about Moonlight—yet that is exactly what I must do.
It feels like a golden era for Black-centered entertainment, for nuanced stories about Black people not made for the white gaze. Shows like Atlanta, Insecure, and even Luke Cage might not seem like high art to some—and in Cage’s case, might even feel threatening for the lack of white faces on-screen—but I feel like I waited my whole life to see Black lives not colored in the same exploitative hues that I was weaned on.