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Movie Review: Barry Jenkins’s Exquisite Moonlight Is a Meditative Character Study at the Nexus of Black Masculinity and Homosexuality

Moonlight ★★★★ Now playing Color looms large in Moonlight. The film is adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, and two characters are called Black and Blue. According to IndieWire, director Barry Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton adjusted the lighting contrast to emphasize the skin tones of the African-American cast. […]