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Moonlight Review + Barry Jenkins & Naomie Harris Interview | Archive

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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First impressions of the Best Picture winner.

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Time for another archive drop, Josh, and we are continuing our best picture winners theme,

0:32.5

building up to the Oscars.

0:34.7

We've got a look back at Barry Jenkins 2017. Yes, it won, not La La Land,

0:41.4

Moonlight won Best Picture that year. Surprise in the moment and seems like the better and better

0:50.6

choice every year that has gone by, which isn't always the case necessarily

0:55.5

for Best Picture Winners. I think people and sometimes us, we like to, you know, joke about

1:01.1

them. But in this case, I think they probably got it right. And that's no shade on La La Land,

1:04.9

which I still love and think is an incredible film. But yeah, for me, at least there's

1:10.1

increasing resonance with moonlight, even beyond,

1:13.9

you know, what we found in our original review. Well, let's see what we had to say in our original

1:19.0

review. And also, we'll get to hear what Barry Jenkins himself, along with his star,

1:24.8

Naomi Harris, had to say about the film. I had the opportunity to talk to them

1:29.1

back when the film was released in October 2016. So you're going to get that conversation

1:34.1

followed by our review.

1:37.4

What happened? What happened, Shiro? Why you didn't come home like you're supposed to? Huh?

1:46.0

And who is you?

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