
La La Land movie review: city of stars, shining just for us
A marvel. Funny and exuberant and bittersweet and cliché-busting and unexpected as hell. We are going to need more movies like this one.
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A marvel. Funny and exuberant and bittersweet and cliché-busting and unexpected as hell. We are going to need more movies like this one.
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It’s been three and a half years since we first gazed at Oscar Isaac, and in that interim, his star has risen considerably.
We need to talk about Llewyn Davis. Cuz there’s a thing that no one else has been talking about when trying to interpret this film…
Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
Hilarious in the Coens’ weird, askew way, but also absolutely crushing. This movie breaks my heart in a hundred different ways.
Stuff I found on the Net today.
12 Years a Slave and Gravity win big…