Chicago

Best Picture, eh? If you say so. For me, it's an entertaining though by no means great movie. Nice work by the cast--all doing their own singing and dancing, apparently--and the story has its clever moments. But the film also illustrates why the classic movie musical is a mostly dead form: it's hard to get beyond the clear artificiality of the (in this case, literally) staged musical numbers. Such a presentation requires a level of audience acceptance that just doesn't exist these days. Don't place any sucker bets on the "revival" of the movie musical just yet.