 Stone began 2013 with a voice role in DreamWorks ' The Croods , an animated feature nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature . She then appeared in the anthology film Movie 43 , which consists of sixteen short stories ; she played the title role in the segment entitled Veronica . Stone collaborated with Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer 's Gangster Squad ( 2013 ) , a crime thriller set in Los Angeles during the 1940s . The New York Times ' A. O. Scott dismissed the film as " a hectic jumble of fedoras and zoot suits " , but praised her pairing with Gosling . Stone expressed a desire to work with Gosling on more projects . 
