"My pick for this year's most innovative fiction piece goes to Damien Chazelle's spunky portrait of an interracial couple's complex if lighthearted courtship. Combining the spirit of early Cassavetes with the relationship insights of Woody Allen in his prime, Chazelle plunks us down inside a hipster jazz scene and a luminously B/W Boston, with the charming leads captured in expressive close-ups."
