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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
In Marshall's virtuoso hands, this movie version of the 1975 Bob Fosse Broadway musical based on the 1942 Ginger Rogers movie Roxie Hart based on the 1926 play Chicago, the rhinestones shimmer like diamonds and brass glows like solid gold.
Chicago is sexy, smoky, cynical, hyper-kinetic and claustrophobic. It just grabs you by the lapels and never lets go.
The final result makes for adequate entertainment, I suppose, but anyone who has seen Chicago on stage will leave the theater feeling they've watched nothing but a pale imitation of the real deal.
This Chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit, as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare.
Much more than one of the best movies of the year, Chicago is destined to become the most popular screen adaptation of a stage musical since Grease.
Big, brassy fun.
Top CriticNot since the 1972 Cabaret has there been a movie musical this stirring, intelligent and exciting.
A slew of great movies were released this month, but few have been as fun as Chicago
Rarely has a Broadway show been transferred to the screen as inventively and successfully. Not only is it one of the 10 BEST of the year but the participants should be top contenders for Oscar gold.
Renee Zellweger is amazing and Richard Gere brings a life to the screen that he hasn't in several years.
Director Rob Marshall went out gunning to make a great one.
Slickly produced and infectiously energetic.
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Top CriticA delight from start to finish.
Chicago offers much colorful eye candy, including the spectacle of Gere in his dancing shoes, hoofing and crooning with the best of them.
This Chicago doesn't toddle, it swings, it Lindy Hops, it Charlestons the night away, and probably all your woes along with it.
Chicago is my kind of movie musical.
A funny, rousing crowd-pleaser.
Marshall has created a glitzy, seductive, high-energy movie that feels more like a filmed play than a play made into a film.
Chicago improves upon the long-running Broadway show by Kander and Ebb in many ways.
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