Marshall deserves credit for taking what threatened to be a worn-out bit of Broadway entertainment and turning it into an evening's worth of fun.
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12/27/02
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: Dramas
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
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Chicago is sophisticated, brash, sardonic, completely joyful in its execution.
12/27/02
What a great way to end a year of movies - on a high note, a low note, and all that jazz!
12/27/02
Credit editor Martin Walsh for doing a bang-up job on many of the numbers to keep our attention shifted away from the staginess while still maintaining the viewability of the very thing we came to see in the first place.
12/26/02
I wondered at times if these people had even seen the show, or if they were just working from the script and sheet music.
12/26/02
Intoxicating! I love love love it. I hope you will too. But you can never say they don't give you every penny's worth.
12/26/02
It's part of the basic Zeta-Jones bio that she can really sing, and, wow, can she.
12/26/02
The fabulous bones of this oft-told tale have been picked over so often that there's no flesh left on them. But Mr. Marshall and the screenwriter Bill Condon get a terrifically sweet concoction out of this fabled skeleton.
12/26/02
Top CriticIt's Zeta-Jones who keeps you watching from start to finish.
12/26/02
Top CriticGives everyone something to shout about.
12/26/02
The screen 'Chicago' is missing the hard, perverse edginess that made the Broadway revival so effective...the edges have been rounded, the ironies softened and replaced with flashy camera work and cutting.
12/26/02
Big, bright, brassy and almost dangerous to know, Chicago does to sceptics what Al Capone did to stool pigeons.
12/26/02
A piece of stagecraft so thrilling -- and spontaneously combustible -- that audiences at the two screenings of the movie I attended kept erupting into applause.
12/26/02
The best thing you can say about Chicago is that it's a great advertisement for the real, live thing.
12/26/02
With its instantly catchy score, imaginative choreography and rat-tat-tat pacing, Chicago is as weighty as a bag of cotton candy, and just as addictive.
12/26/02
It's not just one of the best movies of the year, but one of the best movies in many a year.
12/26/02
Chicago is my kind of town -- and now it's my kind of movie musical.
12/26/02
The movie is appealing, thanks to the cleverness of the Kander-Ebb songs and the enthusiasm of the performances, but it lacks any urgency or erotic spark.
12/26/02
It's fun, splashy and entertainingly nasty.
12/26/02
When you leave the theater, you're all jazzed up and ready to go back for another dose of razzle-dazzle.
12/26/02
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