"...Zellweger wins our hearts. That's what makes her dangerous. Just like the movie....Dynamite..."
Rolling Stone "...It's Zeta-Jones who keeps you watching from start to finish....She refuses to let you go....If musicals are dreams, she is their greatest dreamer..."
Los Angeles Times "...CHICAGO shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's movies....It's part of the basic Zeta-Jones bio that she can really sing, and, wow, can she..."
USA Today "...It's the raw expenditure of energy and the canniness of the staging that should pull audiences in and keep them rooted..."
New York Times "...Fresh and daring....Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly are the surprise standouts..."
Box Office "...[The actors] deliver sizzling performances....This tawdry, hard-as-nails carnival of ghouls generates plenty of fireworks..."
Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Zeta-Jones, all legs and growls, has found her calling card..."
Film Comment "...[Jones] makes nightclub singer Velma a droll fishnet virtuoso..."
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