Jenkins portrays a world so often fetishized and reduced to its most violent outcomes from the inside, with tenderness and Wong Kar-wai’s influence on his cinematic sleeve.

Moonlight displays the kind of empathy and humanity that we desperately need right now.

Jenkins' authorial voice is resounding and strong and his determination admirable.

I’m forever grateful to the brilliance of Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins for this film. It is an absolutely perfect deconstruction of toxic masculinity and the patriarchy that keeps men and boys from accessing the depths of love and connection.