But… most of its critics (aside from those focused on the musical-or-not issue) seem to base their objections on the script by Chazelle, not the colors and razzle-dazzle he deploys over it.

…Agnès Varda, Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma, Patricia Rozema, Jocelyn Moorhouse (I love Proof), Agnieszka Holland (not gonna lie: looked up the "sz")… snack break…

…Gillian Armstrong, Mary Harron, Karyn Kusama, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, Kasi Lemmons… assuming we're only doing English-language here…

Without working for it?

Kirsten Sheridan, although a co-writer on the film, did not direct In America. That would be Jim Sheridan, her pops.

To summarize this article: you should watch Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be now.

The Long Good Friday? I mean, The Longest Day has Fabian and Paul Anka, so you can't go wrong there, either.

And now we know where he ranks among your favorites.

Just reflexively upvoting Utopia.

"Robots".

Bloody Sunday is excellent, too.

Might want to keep an eye on that — an aspiring-nutritionist autocorrect seems benign, but who knows what else it's trying to push on you.

Okay, I really need to know what "want to eat healthy it again OnDemand" was meant to be because it is taking over my brain.

Um…it's kind of a grown-up reason. You may not be ready.