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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.
Theatrical Release:Dec 27, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $170,617,614
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
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Reviews for Chicago
Funny, smart, and with enough energy for two musicals, Chicago is one of the best films of 2002, and one of the best musicals ever.
01/01/04
While Chicago boasts plenty of razzle-dazzle, jazz and pizazz, it's not quite the bedazzling Broadway-to- Hollywood musical triumph some of us have hoped for all these years.
11/11/03
The curtain on “Chicago” goes up this week, and with it the resurgence of movie musicals… if anyone else can make one this good.
10/07/03
With her dynamic dancing and singing, Catherine Zeta-Jones emerges as a force of nature in this killer musical.
08/15/03
Chicago may or may not be a movie for the ages, only time will tell, but its theme of instant celebrity is topical and its music and acting are entertaining for the nonce.
08/01/03
Extremely enjoyable, although it says it all about the 2003 Oscars that this was a winner.
08/01/03
Chicago is hyperactive, but instead of throwing everything and seeing what sticks, it intoxicates you like a glitzy, neon narcotic.
06/26/03
Chicago is, even for the most disavowed theatre enthusiasts, a terrifically entertaining film based on a terrifically entertaining stage musical, that exists solipsistically as an entity for entertainment. . .
06/10/03
A magical musical masterpiece!
05/30/03
Scintillating, jazz-hot adaptation.
04/22/03
Top Critica big, splashy, brassy confection wrapped up in a bow with enough bugle beads and sequins to circle the globe twice and finish with a flourish.
04/05/03
Come on, give me a break. Who wins a Globe for having passed Basic Dance 101? Chicago is a decent film, a real toe-tapper directed with much flair and performed with competence - but ONLY competence.
03/27/03
Ultimately, in the history of the Academy, people may be wondering what all that jazz was about "Chicago" in 2002. Zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a
03/24/03
Rob Marshall's style is to make everything relentlessly brassy and fake, and his Chicago simply looks like a filmed stage play.
03/14/03
Delicious.
03/10/03
Chicago pode até ser um filme divertido e cativante (como é), mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direção contrária à evolução dos musicais.
03/09/03
It's Zeta-Jones who emerges as the singing-dancing revelation.
03/07/03
La película no es sólo una cadena de números de canto y baile, sino una edición soberbia de escenas y recursos de teatro con cuadros y elementos de cine.
03/05/03
Chicago glorifies murder, glamorizes sex & death -- in other words it is just right for today's unsunny times.
03/03/03
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