“Moonlight” won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2017, and now Barry Jenkins’ film has been named the best movie of the past decade by IndieWire.
IndieWire, one of the top sites for movie news and reviews, has decided to name its Top 100 films of the 2010s and “Moonlight” figures at the very top of the list. The reasoning given by IW head critic Eric Kohn is that Jenkins’ film is a “sprawling look at romantic desire and the emotional hardships of the African-American experience [which] folds its fixations into a profound creative tapestry.”
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I have written extensively about Moonlight and its flaws, especially in a 6.26.18 article titled “Why the third act of Moonlight prevents it from being a great movie.”
IndieWire’s top 10 of the Decade:
1) Moonlight
2) Under the Skin
3) Certified Copy
4) The Act of Killing
5) Inside Llewyn Davis
6) Holy Motors
7) Carol
8) The Master
9) Mad Max: Fury Road
10) Lady Bird