Top 10 Movies: Music
The highest-graded music movies we have reviewed, best first.
Kal Ho Naa HoThe film that taught a generation of Hindi cinema how to be funny and devastating in the same scene, and still the best case anyone has made for Shah Rukh Khan.Read the review
HamiltonA near ideal record of a stage phenomenon, the original Broadway cast at full strength, filmed with more intelligence than most stage captures.
The Wizard of OzHollywood's most watched film earns every viewing: a clean, frightening, funny fable, and a sepia door that opens onto Technicolor.
Ma Rainey's Black BottomA filmed play and unashamed of it, carried by Viola Davis's imperious Ma and Chadwick Boseman's volcanic final performance.
AmadeusA mediocrity's confession dressed as a costume picture, and the most entertaining film ever made about envy.
Singin' in the RainThe best musical Hollywood ever made about itself, and the rare comedy where every joke and every dance step lands.
Guillermo del Toro's PinocchioStop-motion of astonishing care turns Collodi's puppet into a fable about grief, fascism and mortality, and only the songs fall short.
Autumn SonataTwo great actresses play one long night of accusation, and Ingrid Bergman, in her final film role, refuses to let the mother become the villain.
MaestroBradley Cooper films the Bernstein marriage with enormous virtuosity and Carey Mulligan gives it a heart, but the music and the man stay just out of reach.
FrozenDisney's snowbound musical makes true love a bond between sisters, and its songs and ice dazzle even where the story around them runs thin.
