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(1 - 50) of 57 OFCS Rating: 81% Fresh Page   12   > Next "With her dynamic dancing and singing, Catherine Zeta-Jones emerges as a force of nature in this killer musical."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 10/10 "A delight from start to finish."   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf "I have no idea if Zellweger and Zeta-Jones are good dancers, because you never see them dance. You think you do, but what you actually see is a bunch of 1/8th-second clips of them dancing, strung together from countless takes, rapid-fire."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null 5/5 "It’s a delicious movie experience and the best movie musical of the past few decades."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius A "The curtain on “Chicago” goes up this week, and with it the resurgence of movie musicals… if anyone else can make one this good."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Chicago—the city that never shuts up."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 1.5/4 "Dull and dreary..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "The trouble is the jazzy vaudeville-like musical numbers are energetic but hardly memorable."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "As close a merge as you're likely to see of the force of living musical with the unique possibility of celluloid"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 3/4 "Takes off with one mesmerizing song after the next, interspersed between exposition sequences that are mere filler for the main attraction."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "The unusual lack of exterior shots suggests a fear on Marshall's part to fully embrace the potential of the cinematic medium."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez A- "It's about time a movie gave us a reason to tap our toes again. Here's to the resurgence of a grand Hollywood tradition."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "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."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "I wondered at times if these people had even seen the show, or if they were just working from the script and sheet music."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov B+ "It's a great deal of sizzle and very little steak. But what spectacular sizzle it is!...In this incarnation its fizz is infectious."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3.5/4 "It's not nearly as rousing as the Broadway revival (then again, it's rare that the cinematic version of a musical comes close to the stage incarnation), but, for those unable or unwilling to see a live production, it represents a sparkling replacement."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "it now plays as almost pure parody, more outright comedy than bitter satire"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "Big-talent movie musical jazzes up a Broadway classic -- and provides Renee Zellweger a chance to truly shine."   Netflix   James Rocchi 9/10 "When the movie gets it right, it gets it right with pizazz."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 2.5/4 "Once the musical numbers start, the editing does nearly everything it can to inhibit proper evaluation or appreciation of talents of the performers."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 7/10 "Chicago will have you tapping your toes and humming along with its various songs long after you leave the theater."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 3/4 "Each musical number builds to such a frantic climax that the audience is nearly moved to applaud the actors on screen."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 8/10 "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."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 4 "The audience in my theater cheered and hollered after each show stopper."   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 3.5/4 "'Brillante, llena de energía y corazón, Chicago es un claro ejemplo de que el género musical no ha muerto y puede ser hecho con inteligencia, pésele a quien le pese.'"   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 5/5 "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."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 5/5 "a wildly cynical and sardonic piece, yet hysterical in its own right - about as unlike Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as you can get"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2/4 "For all its pretensions of 'razzle-dazzle', most of 'Chicago' is actually hohum-humdrum."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest A "There are a lot of words that could describe this musical, but the best summation would lay within these two: it's alive."   Countingdown.com   Larry Carroll B- "structured like "Cabaret," with musical numbers commenting upon the action and establishing character motivations, but where that musical had sweeping scope and rich characterization, "Chicago's" numbers have but a simple story peopled with shallow, unsym"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 9.5 "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."   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 3.5/5 "Rob Marshall's feature film debut is spectacular and sleekly entertaining, given considerable luster by an all-star cast who really can sing and dance."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 4/4 "A theatrical celebration of pure cinema."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 7/10 "A vigorous and creative musical."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 4/4 "A slew of great movies were released this month, but few have been as fun as Chicago"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "A lusciously raunchy and defiantly un-P.C. film that’s both movie-movie and theater-spectacle at the same time."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "The energy of the performances and the enduring score push the musical scenes and the entire film over any hurdle -- yes, even including that misbegotten casting of Gere."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3.5/5 "The energy of the performances and John Kander and Fred Ebb's enduring score push the musical scenes and the entire film over any hurdle -- yes, even including that misbegotten casting of Gere."   Film Threat   Michael Dequina 3.5/5 "The results are certainly not Broadway-caliber performances, that's not why people go see musicals (or it shouldn't be, unless you want to be disappointed)."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 4/4 "One of the movie events of the year."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Birector/choreographer Rob Marshall channels Bob Fosse to produce slinky dance numbers and sinuous camera work, but like the story it tells, it is show over substance."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow B+ "Director/choreographer Rob Marshall channels Bob Fosse to produce slinky dance numbers and sinuous camera work. but it is show instead of substance, or perhaps show to make us forget that there is no substance."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 4/5 "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."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1.5/5 "A failure on almost every level."   Film Threat   Phil Hall 4.5/5 "[A] magical piece of musical cinema with unforgettable songs and characters. And something to say as well."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "Here, finally, is a movie musical made by people who know what they're doing."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "I'd give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B+ "The song and dance numbers are very well staged, even though Zellweger and Gere are not experienced song and dance people."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "Fun and entertaining."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/5 "Chicago looks better than it sounds"   JWR   S. James Wegg  (1 - 50) of 57 OFCS Rating: 81% Fresh Page   12   > Next