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    Moonlight enchants by revealing itself in a thousand facets

    by Stephanie Zacharek Oct 22, 2016 3 minutes
    The bond between Little and Juan, played by Hibbert and Ali, grows into trust during a swimming lesson

    YOU CAN’T ALWAYS READ PEOPLE’S hearts just by looking at their faces. There is surprise, and risk, in getting to know who a person really is. To see this high-stakes gamble played out onscreen, like the opening of a flower captured in stop-motion photography, is one of the greatest gifts filmmakers and actors can give us. Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight is such a calm yet precise piece of filmmaking that you’re barely prepared for its shimmering, quietly sensational ending. Adapted from a short theater piece by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, this is a coming-of-age movie, and

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