Cinema

The critics at Premiere are going senile

I want a recount!

OSCAR’S WORST MOVIES EVER : Chicago
2002 – Winner of Best Picture at the 75th Academy Awards
Directed by Rob Marshall
Starring Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta Jones

Some hold that this know-somethingish vulgarity made movie musicals matter again. No. Chicago merely revealed that there was a new kind of fogy coming up in the population, one that could help this musical turn a profit. Anyone who doesn’t die from embarrassment when the words "razzle dazzle" are drawled from Richard Gere’s smirky mouth has no right to denigrate anything else ever on the grounds of being corny of kitschy.

Whomever wrote this list is not only insane but absolutely senile.

Not content with branding Chicago as one of the worst, their list of best movies does not include anything after Annie Hall --which was made in 1977.

I mean, c'mon. Annie Hall is like the movie every critic likes because they want Woody Allen the stand-up comedian back. When you look at his whole catalog, Crimes & Misdemeanors is the movie where the auteur and comic come together and get divorced in one cinematic swoop.

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