Chicago's so engrossing that you even forget to reach out for the Coke n' popcorn. Now isn't that entertainment!

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 3, 2019

In effect it is filmed theatre, but this brings its own compensations: the more fake Chicago looks, the more real it seems to get.

| Jan 3, 2018

What makes this more than a film of a great stage show is the way that the action spills seamlessly from the stage sets into real life. Magic.

| Feb 25, 2015

Whatever one's qualms about the material, its execution here is rock solid in ways that keep on impressing, right through to the niftiest end credits sequence in years.

| Feb 25, 2015

As a reproduction of the stage show, Chicago isn't bad, but it makes no persuasive case for itself as a film.

| Feb 25, 2015

Bawdy, funny and exhilarating, Chicago is great entertainment.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 25, 2015

Chicago may not rank with the classics, but it's the best traditional movie musical in many a moon.

| Feb 25, 2015

It's a totally unexpected film, and all the more welcome -- a modern reproduction that resurrects the spirit, look and sound of a great era of Hollywood professionalism.

| Feb 25, 2015

Chicago becomes less of a literal skewering of how celebrity criminals manipulate a rigged game, and more of a pure fantasy, not meant to be taken seriously.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 3, 2014

As sentimental as a plywood casket, Chicago has satirical bite and a mean wit that somehow never obscures its characters' unlikely likability.

| Feb 12, 2014

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.

| Feb 12, 2014

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.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2014

The net effect of the incessant dazzle is depressing.

| Feb 24, 2013

The song-and-dance numbers are calisthenic but unspectacular, with too much fast cutting, and the tone throughout is harmlessly facetious.

| Feb 24, 2013

The film has punch, but it never really conveys the delicious, redeeming sense that life can be lived on the hoof.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2013

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.

| Feb 24, 2013

Oscar-winning satire all about the razzle-dazzle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

This Oscar-laden movie rendition, directed by Rob Marshall, suffers from the kind of ants-in-your-pants M온라인카지노추천 editing that prevents you from simply watching and enjoying the musical numbers.

| Feb 6, 2007

Marshall betrays the dancing by never letting us see it properly.

| Jun 24, 2006

Extremely enjoyable, although it says it all about the 2003 Oscars that this was a winner.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2003