Chicago
January 2003
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Keith Phipps
As sentimental as a plywood casket, Chicago has satirical bite and a mean wit that somehow never obscures its characters' unlikely likability.
Ben Nuckols
With performers as good as these and the freshness of Bill Condon's screenplay and Marshall's direction, there's really very little wrong with Chicago. What it lacks is something intangible -- heat.
Joe Morgenstern
Rob Marshall's screen version of the near-venerable show looks great, in its razzly-dazzly neo-Fosse way, and sounds good, especially when Renee Zellweger's gorgeous Roxie Hart is singing her heart out.
Stanley Kauffmann
The net effect of the incessant dazzle is depressing.
Peter Rainer
The song-and-dance numbers are calisthenic but unspectacular, with too much fast cutting, and the tone throughout is harmlessly facetious.
Anthony Lane
The film has punch, but it never really conveys the delicious, redeeming sense that life can be lived on the hoof.
Critic reviews
Keith Phipps
As sentimental as a plywood casket, Chicago has satirical bite and a mean wit that somehow never obscures its characters' unlikely likability.
Ben Nuckols
With performers as good as these and the freshness of Bill Condon's screenplay and Marshall's direction, there's really very little wrong with Chicago. What it lacks is something intangible -- heat.
Joe Morgenstern
Rob Marshall's screen version of the near-venerable show looks great, in its razzly-dazzly neo-Fosse way, and sounds good, especially when Renee Zellweger's gorgeous Roxie Hart is singing her heart out.
Peter Rainer
The song-and-dance numbers are calisthenic but unspectacular, with too much fast cutting, and the tone throughout is harmlessly facetious.
Anthony Lane
The film has punch, but it never really conveys the delicious, redeeming sense that life can be lived on the hoof.
Richard Corliss
Chicago has so much razzle-dazzle that viewers may end up both raised and dazed. It's remorselessly inventive, trying anything fast and sassy to keep you watching.
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The right way to do theatre on film Very fun, fast, and entertaining movie treatment of a very fun, fast, and entertaining musical. The actors/singers do a great job of putting on their musical hats, and the use of edits makes for a startling jaunt into "theatre-on-screen." A somewhat strange pick for the Best Picture Oscar it won, it nevertheless holds up as a great translation of a great Broadway hit.
Cast and credits
Actors | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Taye Diggs |
Producers | Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Craig Zadan, Martin Richards |
Director | Rob Marshall |
Writers | Maurine Dallas Watkins, Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, Bill Condon |
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Run time
113 minutes
Rating
PG-13
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