Critically acclaimed Music movies of 2010s

La La Land(2016)

Combined Rating:
96
Combined Critics Rating: 96

While waiting for their big breaks, two proper L.A. dreamers, a suavely- charming, soft-spoken jazz pianist and a brilliant, vivacious playwright, attempt to reconcile aspirations and relationship in a magical old-school romance.



A Star Is Born(2018)

Combined Rating:
94
Combined Critics Rating: 94

A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.



Inside Llewyn Davis(2013)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 92

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.



Baby Driver(2017)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 91

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.



Whiplash(2014)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.



Cold War(2018)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold ...



Ma Rainey's Black Bottom(2020)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 90

Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.



Sound of Metal(2019)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 89

A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.



Love & Mercy(2014)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 84

In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr. Eugene Landy.



Sing Street(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.



Climax(2018)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 83

French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.



Blinded by the Light(2019)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.



Frank(2014)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Jon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.



Bill & Ted Face the Music(2020)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, 2 would-be rockers from San Dimas, California find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.



Get on Up(2014)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.



Brad's Status(2017)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.



Youth(2015)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.



The Runaways(2010)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. The relationship between band members Cherie Currie and Joan Jett is also explored.



Pitch Perfect 2(2015)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

After a humiliating commando performance at The Kennedy Center, the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no American group has ever won in order to regain their status and right to perform.



Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping(2016)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

When it becomes clear that his solo album is a failure, a former boy band member does everything in his power to maintain his celebrity status.




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