Why 'La La Land' Is 2016's Best Movie uproxx.com

Damien Chazelle's latest is a brutal musical about having to choose between love and creative fulfillment, is the best movie of 2016. A more compelling (but equally truthful) way to describe La La Land is that it’s like Brooklyn or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Inside Llewyn Davis. How selfish should love be, anyway? Should it be like Love Actually, where you try to screw up your best friend’s marriage with a half-assed cue card stunt, just so your feelings are known? Or should it be like Casablanca, where you put yourself aside and walk off into the mist with a French Nazi collaborator rather than wreck everything? La La Land doesn’t try to have it both ways. That’s what makes it so rare. It depicts the pain of having to choose and the bittersweetness of endless what ifs.