Moonlight: No shining star

Ian Murdock

Special to the Village News

Like several films at the end of 2016, Moonlight was awash with sensitive, relatable and highly pertinent content.

Set in the city of Miami, this film traversed the life of a young African American boy being raised by a single mother. In spite of some extremely meaningful performances early on – by the child in his youth, as well as a "strange father like" figure – this story, unfortunately, delivers, not unlike a couple of other films last year, fractured and inexplicable holes.

The story presents a fairly common, though nonetheless heartfelt, family dy...