Chicago connections are many for the Bill Murray classic that’s funny, poignant and way better than sweet vermouth on the rocks, with a twist.

| Feb 4, 2023

This delightful romantic comedy, directed by Harold Ramis, is rich in fantasy and unexpectedly funny twists.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 11, 2023

Groundhog Day is a charming and hilarious film. Or did I already say that? Anyway, it is worth repeating.

| Dec 21, 2022

Groundhog Day might have been a mere gimmick movie, but it isn't; it's something better -- a gentle fantasy of both paralysis and liberation.

| Dec 21, 2022

This is an exceptionally sparky film. It uses the medium of cinema as only cinema can be used -- to re-edit reality. It restores a fresh breath of fantasy to the generally stale air of the sitcom world.

| Dec 21, 2022

Groundhog Day is an intriguing fable that almost overstays its welcome but never quite folds up under scrutiny.

| Dec 21, 2022

Even at its most negligible, Harold Ramis' film is intensely cinematic, not because he is some kind of genius director -- he's not -- but because in the end it's down to film language whether the hero is in hell or in heaven.

| Dec 21, 2022

That it works so entertainingly is a tribute to an ingenious script -- which gradually turns the film into an unconventional romantic comedy and, almost miraculously, never runs out of steam -- and to a pair of very likable performances.

| Dec 21, 2022

Despite miscastings in the main roles (Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell) and an off-putting title, this is an engagingly inventive romantic comedy about déjà vu.

| Dec 21, 2022

With Bill Murray delivering the most mature performance of his career, it has a romantic charm to match its freshness and its constant good humor.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 21, 2022

Murray has captured something that the other baby-boom comics have not -- an edge of anxiety beneath the self-satisfaction, of the disappointment and discontent that accompanies a success achieved too easily.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 7, 2022

The film is uneven, too. Sometimes it flattens out. But most of the time it perks along entertainingly and doesn't let its ethical imperatives enshroud it in a pall of worthiness.

| Dec 7, 2022

Groundhog Day has a clever concept at its core, with a few extremely funny extrapolations. But because the jokes have to be set up by repetitions, the pattern becomes too predictable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2022

Groundhog Day generates enough warmth, wit, humor, sexual chemistry, and spiritual resonance to light up a whole season of Valentine's Days.

| Dec 7, 2022

Name me a recent Hollywood comedy with an original idea to its name. I thought so. Relief comes with Groundhog Day, the most delightfully refreshing and funny movie to hail from the studios in many a month.

| Dec 7, 2022

He hasn't been this funny and endearing in half a decade. He's at his smarmy-sarcastic best here, and Groundhog Day may be the movie that salvages Mr. Murray's career.

| Dec 7, 2022

Think hard for a moment What always happens when bills go astray? Exactly. Someone else pays for your mistakes or you for theirs; or else justice is done after long litigation. Groundhog Day is a mixture, but a delicious one, of all three.

| Dec 7, 2022

Given the obvious debt to the comedies of Capra the movie could have defrosted swiftly into a puddle of sentiment Mostly it stays crisp and sharp and bracing -- thanks to the cunning tangential way the central conceit is played out.

| Dec 7, 2022

Dial your expectations to moderate, burrow in for the duration, and you won't be disappointed -- it ain't exactly springtime, but there are worse things than an amiable outing on a winter's night.

| Dec 7, 2022

Anything with Bill Murray in it is worth seeing, and he's a hoot in the film's first half... But Groundhog Day fails apart somewhere in the middle.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2022