{"id":271118,"date":"2021-06-10T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/musical-is-the-years-best-movie\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:20:29","slug":"musical-is-the-years-best-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/musical-is-the-years-best-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"#Musical is the year\u2019s best movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Musical is the year\u2019s best movie<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 143 minutes. Rated PG-13 (some language and suggestive references). In theaters and on HBO Max June 10.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lin-Manuel Miranda has done it again! Again!<\/p>\n

The \u201cHamilton\u201d creator\u2019s blissful new movie \u201cIn the Heights,\u201d which is based on his Tony Award-winning 2008 musical, is the best film of the year so far. It\u2019s also easily the best movie-musical since the Oscar-winning \u201cChicago\u201d from way back in 2003. Please excuse me while I look up some synonyms for \u201cbest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romantic and funny, the film \u2014 out Thursday in theaters and on\u00a0HBO Max<\/a> \u2014 is a dazzling ode to New York City and Washington Heights, the Upper Manhattan neighborhood where Miranda grew up in and still lives today. It\u2019s a vibrant Latino community whose residents have roots primarily in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, which is where the main character Usnavi (Anthony Ramos) hails from.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Heights\u201d has always been unusual as far as Broadway musicals go. Unlike glitzier fare such as \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d or \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables,\u201d these characters\u2019 troubles are far more commonplace: a dad selling his business to pay for his daughter\u2019s college education, a teen trying to get citizenship, a power outage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

No Parisian phantoms cut down a giant chandelier. Here, a cashier fixes the refrigerator motor.<\/p>\n

But the residents\u2019 daily struggles, told through Miranda\u2019s infectious rap, R&B and Latin music, break your heart, and their resilience lifts your spirit. In fact, on-screen, \u201cIn the Heights\u201d packs more of a punch than the show ever did onstage, which is a rarity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s in large part thanks to Jon M. Chu (\u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d), the most reliably entertaining director working today, who shot the film in the real Washington Heights. Now the story not only pulses with energy and vitality, but it oozes authenticity, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clever Chu turns tiny things we take for granted \u2014 shop windows, manhole covers, fire escapes \u2014 into movie magic. It\u2019s especially satisfying to see actual locales such as Highbridge Pool or subway platforms become sparkling Hollywood sets for fabulous dances choreographed by Alice Brooks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the Heights,\u201d starring Anthony Ramos and Melissa Barrera, is one of the most dazzling movie musicals in years.<\/figcaption>
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Chu also wisely cast lesser-known young actors in the parts, rather than A-listers or pop stars. Ramos\u2019 Usnavi is the charmingly frenetic owner of a bodega, which is the center of his community. Everybody comes to Usnavi and his cousin Sonny (a sweet and funny Gregory Diaz IV) for their coffee, Lotto tickets, Cokes, condoms, Ben & Jerry\u2019s and most everything else you could possibly want. Ramos is so damn lovable in this role. He\u2019s famous for \u201cHamilton,\u201d but now he\u2019s proven himself a bona fide leading man.<\/p>\n

Usnavi is crushing hard on Vanessa (Melissa Barrera, a spectacular find), an aspiring fashion designer who desperately wants to move downtown to Greenwich Village. Meanwhile, her best friend Nina (Leslie Grace) has returned home from her first semester at Stanford, where she didn\u2019t fit in, to her disapp<\/a>ointed dad (Jimmy Smits). As Usnavi\u2019s abuela, Olga Merediz has the most emotional heft. Corey Hawkins, meanwhile, sings smoothly as his best friend Benny, who works as a car-service dispatcher.<\/p>\n

Trust me \u2014 it\u2019s been ages since you\u2019ve seen actors have this much fun in a movie. <\/p>\n

And that jubilation is why this is the one film that I\u2019m glad was delayed by the pandemic. It\u2019s more potent now to watch hustling, passionate, young people dancing in packed streets at the peak of summer, hop on and off trains and gossip in a salon. As New York reopens, think of \u201cIn the Heights\u201d as the ribbon-cutting ceremony.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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