‘La La Land’
Has enough time passed since the Oscars that we can say that both Moonlight AND La La Land were good movies deserving of praise and statues? It’s time to give La La Land another whirl around the dream ballet. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone elevate a movie that can get a little snoozy in its mid-section, but a dynamite and energetic opening number and an ambitious kicker of an ending more than make up for it.