Carol vs Moonlight vs Call Me by Your Name

I haven't seen Call Be My Your Name yet.

I don't think Moonlight is quite as great as its reputation suggests, as I feel that it diminishes in quality and impact with each successive time-skip (the first act is masterful, the second strong but flawed, the third act hollow and sluggish). But with that said, it is better than Carol in almost every respect save for cinematography and costume design. It still frustrates me how much I detest Haynes's film and especially Nagy's horrid adaptation of a very good book, and how there was absolutely no chemistry between the leads, both of whom I love in general but not in this film.

Moonlight would be third for me, I don't like it or find appreciation from a storytelling and visual standpoint. I find it in a position of those movies that beg you to like it, the themes, the suffering, victimization, discrimination, the characters, it's condescendant in every way, it goes the easy way putting on the table themes socially important but through trite narrative, at least a movie like Precious was fun. And the visuals annoyed me even more, it's saturated of techniques that have been used before, not because it looks pretty signify it's great, honestly  the DP and Jenkisn are a bit of a hack team.

Carol, I like way more even though I'm not as enamored by it as most people. But just for two aspects have my total admiration, one the visual aspect and how it brings to life that period in time, it's like ad Ed Hopper painting in movement, and secondly for how non toxic its treatment of the realtionship between the two main characters is and their attitude towards society, it's subversive in that way, mainly the ending, although at times I think it's too heavily stylized, gives me the impression that someone is playing with dolls, nothing wrong with that though, but here I think it's too much, especially in the body language of the characters, the gazes, looks and mannerisms have more room and rambles where something more interesting could be happening but it comes more as a way to emphasize the style, but even there, it could very well be a reminder of the artificiality of the time, I just think it wasn't the most interesting way to put in on screen. 

But my vote goes to Call Me by Your Name. I wrote a brief thoughts a few weeks ago and my opinion hasn't change, it's a beautiful movie, the casual style and the way the message comes across, everything is organic and natural, at the same pace, even moments/accidents that the director left in the final cut adds to what's happening on screen, the Ivory/Guadagnino team couldn't be more beneficial to the material.