A John Hughes Movie for a Generation of People Who Don't Know Who John Hughes Was

Rating: 9/10 (27 January 2017)

One of my favorite movies of 2016 is this charming, funny, and poignant film set in 1985 Ireland.
"Sing Street" is like an 80s movie filtered through a 2016 perspective, so all of the requisite themes and characteristics of films like "The Breakfast Club" and "Pretty in Pink" (and pretty much any film starring Molly Ringwald) are present -- championing nonconformity, resisting the oppression of rigid rules and institutions, montages of upbeat pop songs -- but refreshed to feel relevant in our current cultural climate. This film gave me the feeling I think Richard Curtis films are supposed to, except that his movies are so terrible.
And "Sing Street" has a kick-ass soundtrack.
Grade: A