Stone began 2013 with a voice role in the DreamWorks Animation film "The Croods", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. This followed with an appearance in "Movie 43", an anthology film which consists of sixteen short storiesshe played the title role in the segment entitled "Veronica". The actress collaborated with Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer's "Gangster Squad" (2013), a crime thriller set in Los Angeles during the 1940s. A. O. Scott of "The New York Times" 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.