Moonlight (2016)

Moonlight rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.4/10· 349K votes

Rotten Tomatoes98%

Metacritic99%

TMDb7.358/10· 8K votes

With 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.4/10 on IMDb and 99/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Moonlight

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Cast of Moonlight

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  Trevante Rhodes

  as Black

• 

  André Holland

  as Kevin

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  Janelle Monáe

  as Teresa

• 

  Ashton Sanders

  as Chiron

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  Jharrel Jerome

  as Kevin Age 16

• 

  Alex R. Hibbert

  as Little

• 

  Jaden Piner

  as Kevin Age 9

• 

  Naomie Harris

  as Paula

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  Mahershala Ali

  as Juan

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  Shariff Earp

  as Terrence

• D

  Duan Sanderson

  as Azu

• H

  Herman 'Caheei McGloun

  as Longshoreman

Moonlight facts

Budget

$4M

Box office

$65M

Our take on Moonlight

Barry Jenkins's 2016 Best Picture winner follows a Black gay man across three chapters of his life — boyhood, adolescence, adulthood — in a tender, luminous study of identity, tenderness and survival in Miami. Quiet, poetic and deeply humane, it redefined the coming-of-age film. If its intimate beauty and emotional restraint moved you, seek out lyrical character dramas about self-discovery, vulnerability and the search to be seen.