Dinner with Friends vs Moonlight

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Moonlight). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 51m. Moonlight is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Moonlight posterMoonlight2016
Dinner with FriendsMoonlight
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.4/10
Year20252016
Length1h 36m1h 51m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryBarry Jenkins
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellMahershala Ali, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, André Holland, Trevante Rhodes

Synopsis

Dinner with Friends

After the parties, jobs, and hook-ups throughout their twenties and into their thirties, eight friends are trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The…

Moonlight

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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