5. The Get Down

Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down is a fabulous, ambitious, sometimes bloated, often messy, always full-throttled story. It's defined by some solid performances from Justice Smith and Herizen Guardiola, along with a characteristic Luhrmannian aesthetic that stuffs every frame with color and glitter and noise. As with the best Luhrmann productions, The Get Down is obsessed with performance and passion, and it couples that obsession with a real, palpable commitment to the music it’s working to portray. It's jangling and raucous and forthright and big.