'Moonlight': A Retrospective on Barry Jenkins' Masterpiece
Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.

Miloud, Fatiha, Sarah, and Anas, con artists specializing in marriage scams, see their latest scheme go disastrously wrong as they are hunted by a mobster and the police. By chance, they become entangled with a wealthy family where Fatiha is mistaken for a long-lost heiress. Under the threat of a manipulative notary, they continue their deception while facing danger and betrayal.
Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
'Reservation Dogs' is stacked with an array of Native American performers and crew telling their own story.
A group of criminal animals tries their best to reform themselves into good citizens to avoid serving time in prison.