La La Land (2016)

Stone and Gosling are, respectively, a struggling actress and a frustrated jazz pianist. They find each other, fall in love, and then life happens.

After the first couple of numbers, I was a little bit worried that this was gonna be an inconsequential bit of fluff, but it shaped up into something transportive. I was both charmed and moved -- especially by the final sequence. I left the theater with wet eyes but just so full of admiration.

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