Before the Emma Stone/Ryan Gosling film opens in limited release on December 9, we’ve decided to put La La Land in context by running down a list of The 15 Best Recent Movie Musicals of the last twenty years, which you can check out in the gallery below!
Damien Chazelle’s breezy new throwback musical La La Land is earning rave reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and is already considered an Oscar front-runner.
RELATED: Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone Soar in New La La Land Trailer Like the western, musicals are often mentioned as a dying genre, but like westerns at least one prominent musical seems to pop up like clockwork every year or two.