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Its overripe, but heady.
The title is heavily symbolic.
(Are you ready for this?
Ive never been more ready for anything in my whole life.)
Its a magic-in-the-moonlight moment, but it turns out to be a flashback.
The close-ups are immense, the emotions archetypal.
Brian Tyree Henry is Fonnys big, once happy-go-lucky friend, shattered now after a stint in prison.
Jenkins pre-chews the material, which he never did inMoonlightor his first feature,Medicine for Melancholy.
Beale Street has spoken.
