I felt is was probably the best picture of the year. Maybe not the best "musical" in history but as a film I thought it was incredibly compelling.
I'm with you. Compelling it was. Most enjoyable experience I've had at a movie in quite awhile. We saw it at the theater before the awards.
We love musicals too, go to the theatre often and love the classics, musical or whatever, a wonderful movie. I did like the soundtrack too.
It seems in our world, I'm 66, daughter 30, folks in my age group pretty much all loved it, the same with my daughter's millennials. In between our ages it was pretty hit and miss.