La La Land

2016 • 128 minutes

About this movie

Winner of 6 Academy Awards® including Best Director for writer-director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record-breaking 7 Golden Globe® awards, LA LA LAND is more than the most acclaimed movie of the year—it's a cinematic treasure for the ages that you'll fall in love with again and again. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as Mia and Sebastian, an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams—and finding each other—in a vibrant celebration of hope, dreams, and love.

Ratings and reviews

While I enjoy most musicals, this movie was strange, slow, and uninteresting from the get go. I wondered several times if the writer had been using drugs while writing this script. So not worth the time wasted viewing this film. I will say, I did enjoy some of the music in the film, but for a musical there wasn't as much as we typically see in films.

A modern day classic if there ever was one. Set in the giant city that is Los Angeles, this musical-style movie tells the story of a modern-day romance, with one of the most memorable and heartbreaking endings. I constantly find myself absorbed in the movie and the score by Justin Hurwitz, each scene spurring new interest. The film absolutely deserves the awards it has won, if not more.

I don't like musicals. There's a couple I can enjoy like the rocky horror picture Show, but generally I find them exhausting. That being said I thoroughly enjoyed La La Land. Minus the very beginning which felt very musical. After a brief sequence in the very start of the film the director seemed intent on destroying convention of what a musical is. The songs that are included aren't great but my god the cinematography and characters/actors are just superb. It's a beautiful movie to look at. The storyline is very musical in design but it's delivery is so good you don't mind. It's just a good movie. I don't know if it would have been as good if they had gone with stronger singers instead of strong actors though.