Moonlight SPOILER-FREE Review

Moonlight is a film I've been wanting to see for a while now. Everyone who's seen it has been raving nonstop that it's one of the best of the year, and that it's a masterpiece of a movie. When people talk like that, it's bound to get my hopes up. I walked into Moonlight expecting to walk out with it in my top three favorite movies of the year. That may have been a little presumptuous on my part, but from what everyone was saying, what was I supposed to think? So I went into Moonlight with very high expectations, and while I was disappointed in that respect, I appreciated a lot of the things Moonlight accomplishes. While I wouldn't put it in the top of my list of my favorite movies of the year, it does has incredible performances, a very interesting story structure and great cinematography. The movie follows one kid, Chiron, through three stages of his life: when he was a kid, when he was a teenager, and when he was an adult. Through these three sta