How Moonlight’s creators made a universally acclaimed window into gay black identity

Since the moment Barry Jenkins’ feature film Moonlight debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in November, it’s been a critical darling, with rave reviews following it from film festivals in Toronto, New York, and Rome to its current wide release in theaters. Currently showing a 99 percent rating on both Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, the film has met with universal acclaim for its unusually formal yet daring approach to the familiar ground of the coming-of-age story. Writer-directo