Nine

Best picture chances

Rob Marshall’s second big-screen musical after 2002 best picture Oscar winner Chicago, Nine should go all the way to a best picture nomination if only for the spectacle of a dazzling star cast in 1960s fashions dancing and singing up a storm. Nominated for a Golden Globe for best picture (comedy or musical), Nine has all the ingredients to delight cine-savvy Oscar voters.

What Screen said

“One of the most hotly anticipated talent packages this decade, the big-screen version of 1982 Broadway hit musical Nine is a razzle-dazzle star-fest which tries to make up with flash and glamour what it lacks in substance. A must-see for upscale crowds enticed by the prospect of another Chicago-style musical event, Nine will achieve some crossover into the wider audiences who lapped up that blockbuster. Marshall and his screenwriters have taken Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit’s stage musical and retooled it for the screen, dropping large swathes of plot, changing others and using only eight of the original songs. Yeston has written three numbers for the film.”

Mike Goodridge