Chicago

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Rob Marshall's adaptation arrives as a flashy, kinetic piece of filmmaking that earned broad critical enthusiasm, with particular praise for the cast and for Marshall's use of cinematic editing to differentiate the film from its stage source. A minority of critics found it too streamlined and raised doubts about Marshall's directorial influences, but those voices were largely drowned out.