The Get Down is quintessential Baz Luhrmann, and it's brilliant

The familiar hallmarks of Luhrmann's cinematic brand are all there: dance, music, and a poet-hero in love

The Get Down is available now on Netflix.
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The Get Down — the long-anticipated Bronx musical about the mythical rise of hip-hop and the death of disco in the '70s — drops on Netlix August 12. And be warned: If the first three episodes are any indication, it's an ambitious, grainy, gorgeous, absurdly poetic hurricane of feelings. Here's a taste:

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Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.