From the Sight and Sound archive
“Funny, engaging and winning in its self-deprecating modesty”: Bridget Jones’s Diary reviewed in 2001
When Renée Zellweger first appeared on UK screens as Bridget Jones, critic Leslie Felperin was impressed by her fine comic timing in a film that ‘slips down as easily as Chardonnay’.
By Leslie Felperin
“Funny, engaging and winning in its self-deprecating modesty”: Bridget Jones’s Diary reviewed in 2001