Moonlight

In three chapters spanning childhood adolescence and adulthood we follow Chiron a Black boy growing up in a rough Miami neighborhood raised by his crack-addicted mother struggling with his sense of self and his unacknowledged sexuality. Barry Jenkins’s Oscar-winning film is one of the most tender and visually beautiful American films of the 21st century — a portrayal of Black masculinity vulnerability and longing unlike anything that came before it. Mahershala Ali’s brief appearance as the drug dealer Juan is one of the decade’s finest supporting performances.