Barry Jenkins’ film follows the growing-up of a shy gay African-American boy. When young Chiron eats as a guest he is seen holding his fork differently than the adult Chiron in the diner at the end of the movie.
A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African-American, gay man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
What is remarkable about Moonlight is that Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney have crafted a film which has this place so deep in its bones that it strikes me as impossible to separate any aspect of its form from the context
A Ghost Story — unique supernatural fable
Rooney Mara and a bedsheet-draped Casey Affleck star in David Lowery’s radical and poetic tale. I rarely see a movie so original that I want to tell people to just see it without reading any reviews beforehand, , David Lowery's “A Ghost Story” is one of those movies. So I'm urging you to just see it.
Some will say it's pretentious, obtuse, and masturbatory, and they'd be able to find plenty of evidence. But there's so much to love here, largely because the film is something of an inkblot.
Call Me by Your Name is a bewitching story of gay love
Set in Lombardy in a 1980s summer, Luca Guadagnino’s film is truthful and vivid. Call Me by Your Name is a 2017 romantic coming-of-age drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman, in a place so enchanted, with its bright green gardens, that it belongs in a fairy tale. The location, the opening credits tell us, is “Somewhere in Northern Italy.”
Manchester by the Sea — ‘Tragical-magical’
Kenneth Lonergan’s new movie is a marvellous drama of rage and grief. After the death of his older brother Joe, Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked that Joe has made him sole guardian of his teenage nephew Patrick. Taking leave of his job as a janitor in Boston, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea, the fishing village where his working-class family has lived for generations.
There, he is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams), and the community where he was born and raised.
Get Out — a brilliantly mischievous, unsettling movie
Jordan Peele’s debut feature blends horror, comedy and racism allegory, It stars Daniel Kaluuya as Chris, a black man who visits the family of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams); at their home, the servants are black and act strangely.
It's time for a young African American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.
Jackie: a piercingly intelligent film
Natalie Portman catches every tic and trick in Pablo Larraín’s portrait of the first lady. A disturbingly intimate portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy, 'Jackie' is a film that unmasks her in such a tender yet objective manner; you feel like an intruder who is tailing the first lady of America and a widow in her most trying time.
A movie which portrays the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination from the eyes of JFK's wife. The movie, starring Natalie Portman and directed by Pablo Larrain, shows how the then First Lady dealt with the huge responsibilities thrust on her, during and after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.
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