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I want to start with a confession. When I heard Antoine Fuqua was making a Michael Jackson biopic, my first instinct was a very long, very tired sigh. We all know this story, We lived that story, Michael Jackson was so famous, so relentlessly documented, so mythologised in real time that a biopic feels almost redndant bedore it begins. And yet here I am, telling you that Michael got me. Not completely, not unconditionally, but genuinely. Let's get the obvious stuff out of the

There are films you see and films you carry. La La Land is the second kind, one of those rare works that does not stay on the screen when the credits roll but follows you out into the parking lot and rides home with you in silence. We first saw it years ago, in a theater, and we have thought about its ending more times than we can count. Returning to it now, we wanted to know whether it holds. Whether the feeling was real or whether we had invented it in the years since, pol