“As a collection of interwoven stories set to the pulsing rhythms of everyday barrio life, this In The Heights can feel as dramatically thin and overstretched as its source material admittedly was,” said Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times. “But as a musical valentine to a close-knit Latino community, an inspired swirl of hip-hop, Latin pop, salsa and other musical idioms, its pleasures are often glorious, even transporting.”