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Why ‘In the Heights’ lives up to hype: Hot musical is year’s best movie

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Lin-Manuel Miranda has done it again! Again!The “Hamilton” creator’s blissful new movie “In the Heights,” which is based on his Tony Award-winning 2008 musical, is the best film of the year so far.

It’s also easily the best movie-musical since the Oscar-winning “Chicago” from way back in 2003. Please excuse me while I look up some synonyms for “best.”Romantic and funny, the film — out Thursday in theaters and on HBO Max — is a dazzling ode to New York City and Washington Heights, the Upper Manhattan neighborhood where Miranda grew up in and still lives today.

It’s a vibrant Latino community whose residents have roots primarily in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, which is where the main character Usnavi (Anthony Ramos) hails from.“In.

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