Review of In the Heights (2021) by Dana Stevens for Slate — 21 May 2021
This movie succeeds at the hardest task a movie musical needs to pull off: the musical numbers, with few exceptions, soar in the way an in-story song has to soar to convince us that, given this situation and these characters, “randomly bursting into song” is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
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This review of In the Heights (2021) was written by Dana Stevens and published by Slate on 21 May 2021.
In the Heights has generally received positive reviews.
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