Critic Rating
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Director
Sharon Maguire
Cast
Renée Zellweger,
Colin Firth,
Hugh Grant,
Gemma Jones,
Jim Broadbent,
James Callis
Genre
Comedy,
Romance,
Drama
Bridget Jones, struggling against her age, her weight, her job, and her lack of a man, decides to take control of her life in the new year by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in her.
Although cliche and predictable, what makes this film stand out is Renée Zellweger performance in it. She manages to make audiences root for and even fall in love with a clumsy, crass, and often contradictory character. It's the first film in a classic romcom series that will never go out of style.
San Francisco Chronicle by Carla Meyer
A triumph for all involved.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Ms. Zellweger accomplishes the small miracle of making Bridget both entirely endearing and utterly real.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Delivers frisky fun for bruised romantics regardless of age, sex or nationality.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
A delightful and endearing romantic comedy with the shape and resonance of a Jane Austen novel.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
The Zellweger-Firth-Grant triangle works as irresistibly as Hepburn-Grant-Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story."
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Made against all odds into a funny and charming movie that understands the charm of the original, and preserves it.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
An endearing comedy that could well end up being one of the year's big hits.
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
Grant is casually fabulous and very amusing, but all power to Firth the actor. He's the compleat Darcy, and he never wavers.
Newsweek
She's (Zellweger) so disarming and so deeply Bridget -- gliding between mortifying slapstick and pathos -- that she's entirely won you over by the time the credits have rolled. The opening credits.
L.A. Weekly by Ernest Hardy
Bessed with a gleamingly polished, very funny script.
Newsweek by Jeff Giles
She's (Zellweger) so disarming and so deeply Bridget -- gliding between mortifying slapstick and pathos -- that she's entirely won you over by the time the credits have rolled. The opening credits.
Boston Globe by Jay Carr
The film not only works better than expected but gets the important things right, starting, of course, with Zellweger's Bridget and Bridget's mind-set.
USA Today by Susan Wloszczyna
Where the highly likable actress (Zellweger) proves most valuable is in making us adore this insecure, clumsy, contradictory creature.
Slate by David Edelstein
Quite likable -- even sometimes, with the squeezable Zellweger its principal object, lovable.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
I could have done without all the pushy tactics of this romantic comedy.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer
The filmmakers spend so much time milking gags they should have called it Bridget Jones's Dairy.
Village Voice by Amy Taubin
The three-act structure is too predictable, and at 90 minutes, feels both draggy and hacked to the bone.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
How can you celebrate a movie in which Zellweger doesn't soar but simply avoids disaster?
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