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An ambitiously vibrant, often dazzling pastiche of great
movie musicals, “La La Land” is practically impossible to dislike.
Typically in films of the “inspirational teacher” genre, the celebrated, unconventional instructors that inspire their pupils to reach greatness do so by kindly reaching out to their young students, instilling in them a lifelong love of learning through their sheer passion for teaching. In “Whiplash,” Terence Fletcher, the tyrannical music teacher played with gleeful relish […]
