This is the sleekest and sexiest movie musical to slither, shake and scintillate on-screen since Cabaret.
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01/06/03
Chicago (2002)
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Reviews Counted:206
Fresh:180
Rotten:26
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: A rousing and energetic adaptation of the Broadway musical that'll have you tapping your feet.
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Everyone loves a legend, but in Chicago, there’s only room for one. Velma Kelley (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) burns in the spotlight as a nightclub sensation. When she shoots her philandering husband,... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah
Director: Rob Marshall
Reviews for Chicago
101 - 120 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Chicago is no Cabaret, but if all you want from your evening's entertainment is jazz, it's all that.
01/06/03
The song and dance numbers are very well staged, even though Zellweger and Gere are not experienced song and dance people.
01/05/03
After being stuck in years of development, Chicago finally arrives on the big screen and the result is spectacular.
01/05/03
In the rousing and rhythmically spry Chicago, Marshall delivers a finger-snapping gem that radiates jubilance and promotes its lyrical spirit -- its bounciness and endless energy will have audiences giddy with delight.
01/05/03
When the movie gets it right, it gets it right with pizazz.
01/05/03
Fosse would have been pleased by the results.
01/05/03
It’s a delicious movie experience and the best movie musical of the past few decades.
01/04/03
Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere put so much palpable verve into their high energy performances that one would be scared of wishing them the proverbial, 'Break a leg!' lest they do.
01/04/03
It's about time a movie gave us a reason to tap our toes again. Here's to the resurgence of a grand Hollywood tradition.
01/04/03
A lusciously raunchy and defiantly un-P.C. film that’s both movie-movie and theater-spectacle at the same time.
01/03/03
Though we might not normally think of Zellweger or Zeta-Jones as musical talents, both are sensational.
01/03/03
The accolades currently pouring in for this Fosse-derived piece of claptrap only prove that American musical theater is dead as a doornail.
01/03/03
It prances. It struts. It kicks up its heels. It bumps and grinds and gyrates and works up a sweat and has a cigarette afterwards.
01/03/03
This cinematic version of a theatrical experience should find favor in any court in the land.
01/03/03
Zellweger and Zeta-Jones provide a perfect contrast -- the former a naive child-woman who wants only to see her name in lights, the latter a been-around-the-block cynic fighting for survival.
01/03/03
The film is bright and flashy in all the right ways.
01/03/03
The usually quiet Zellweger is the revelation: Like her character, the actress seems happily amazed to find herself crossing a polished dance floor, sheathed in silk and diamonds, having the naughty, self-glorifying time of her life.
01/03/03
Director Rob Marshall has taken the spirit of the Broadway show, opened it up and delivered nearly two hours of wonderful song, dance, choreography and drama. This is the best movie musical in years.
01/03/03
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01/03/03
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