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Weekend Movie Selections

La La Land. Some kind of magic happens in Damien Chazelle's starry-eyed musical, with one foot (in tap shoes) firmly planted in the past, and the other (in taps, too, of course) planted in a me-first, modern-day world. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are the struggling Los Angelenos who fall in love despite a mutual wariness, walking and talking, singing and dancing, amid a swirl of classic Hollywood references. PG-13

La La Land.

Some kind of magic happens in Damien Chazelle's starry-eyed musical, with one foot (in tap shoes) firmly planted in the past, and the other (in taps, too, of course) planted in a me-first, modern-day world. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are the struggling Los Angelenos who fall in love despite a mutual wariness, walking and talking, singing and dancing, amid a swirl of classic Hollywood references.

PG-13

Fences. August Wilson's masterpiece about a working-class African American family in the 1950s is transformed into a compelling, searing film in the hands of producer, director, and star Denzel Washington. He plays a charismatic, funny, energetic, but equally embittered garbage collector who derides anyone, including his wife, Rose (Viola Davis), who suggests life has improved for African Americans since the Civil War. PG-13

Manchester by the Sea. Kenneth Lonergan proves once again he's one of America's finest dramatists with this working-class drama about loss, grief, and family obligations, starring Casey Affleck as a self-hating melancholic

since a tragic accident. R

Hidden Figures. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe are terrific in this feel-good family movie about a group of black female mathematicians who worked at NASA during the 1960s - overqualified scientists who could only get jobs crunching numbers for their white male bosses, but who overcame prejudice to make their mark. PG