‘Hamilton’ on the big screen might be the most political film of the year

By Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — You’d be hard-pressed to find any greater pop-culture rebuke of the anti-immigrant, anti-DEI messages promulgated by the Trump administration than in the big-screen spectacle of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Hamilton” as it plays in theaters for the first time.

On opening night Friday at Hollywood’s historic El Capitan Theatre, devoted fans donned powdered wigs and Colonial coats and belted out every song along with the cast. “Immigrants, we get the job done,” was, of course, the biggest applause line of the night.

The line always gets a huge roar, but it hits differently in a city in the midst of ongoing ICE raids. The entire show, for that matter, resonates at a higher pitch in 2025 when the government is eliminat