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CHICAGO
February 25, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Encore, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

This 2002 movie version of the long-running John Kander and Fred Ebb Broadway musical, directed by Rob Marshall and capturing the spirit of the original choreography and direction by Bob Fosse, is one of the best movie musicals ever filmed. The casting is surprising – Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones and John C. Reilly in a musical? – but each and every one of them delivers superbly. And Zellweger, as publicity-hungry murder defendant Roxie Hart, deserves another moment in the spotlight – now that Saturday Night Live, and Kate McKinnon, have adapted her narcissistic “Roxie” number for a similarly staged SNL showstopper song-and-dance segment called “Conway,” with McKinnon playing a musical version of Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway.

 
 
 
 
 
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