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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – our hapless heroine is sharper, wiser and funnier

Renée Zellweger’s Bridget faces new challenges in parenting and love, but it’s the familiar faces around her who deliver heart and humour in this unexpectedly poignant fourth outing

The Guardian - UK

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – our favourite frazzled English woman is back but life’s more complicated

Bridget Jones, the endearingly chaotic heroine who is unlucky in love, is back – but not as many might expect. This is the fourth Bridget Jones film, which adapts the story of the third book in Helen Fielding’s much-loved series (the third film, Bridget Jones’s Baby, was based on the…

The Conversation

Helen Fielding says she will 'never forgive herself' for killing off Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones

Helen Fielding will "never forgive herself" for killing off Colin Firth's character in the 'Bridget Jones' franchise.

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A timely new chapter for Bridget Jones

It's a new day for the beloved rom-com heroine, and director Michael Morris says her longevity is downright radical

Salon

Renée Zellweger blasts backlash to 'toxic' Bridget Jones from critics

The film character has come under scrutiny for being obsessed with her weight and wanting to find a man

Evening Standard

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review — a bloated, weeping sogfest

2/5 The latest instalment of Bridget Jones brings back the old cast but falls into mawkishness

Evening Standard

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – giant laughs for Hugh Grant but weepie sequel is strangely dazed

Renée Zellweger looks as if she’s thinking of something else in weird fourquel that sees our heroine choosing between new suitors Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Mad About the Boy is the best Bridget Jones sequel yet – and Renée Zellweger remains sensational

4/5 Zellweger’s Bridget is now a widow – and romanced by both Leo Woodall’s younger man and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s kindly teacher – and this sequel, adapted from Helen Fielding’s third book in her series of novels, is vulnerable, honest and very funny

The Independent UK

Bridget Jones locations: how our favourite characters have climbed the property ladder

From her beloved Borough Market flat to Daniel Cleaver’s warehouse apartment, here’s how Bridget Jones characters’ property portfolios have fared

Evening Standard

Bridget Jones is back – here’s where to watch all the films so far

The fourth and final film in the much-loved rom-com series is hitting cinemas this Valentine's Day

The Independent UK

Producers scrapped Scottish Bridget Jones love interest character

Leo Woodall has revealed that he prepared to play Bridget Jones’ young love interest as a Scot before the producers “changed their minds”.

The National (Scotland)

Where is ‘Mad About The Boy’ set? All the Bridget Jones filming locations you can visit in London

Here are the settings behind Bridget’s single (and sometimes not-so-single) life in the UK capital

The Independent UK

Is it time to stop bashing Bridget Jones? Hapless everywoman has evolved – and so have we

A fourth film about Helen Fielding’s creation will be released on Valentines’s day, and this time it’s gen Z that has fallen in love with her

The Guardian - UK

Leo Woodall: Bridget Jones’ love interest character was meant to be Scottish

The actor prepared to play the role as a Scot until the producers changed their minds.

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The Guardian - UK

Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones

Nearly 25 years after the first film, the actor, her co-stars and the writer Helen Fielding discuss the ultimate singleton, love and loss – and the final resting place for Bridget’s massive knickers

Evening Standard

Bridget Jones may be 'problematic' but she's just as relatable in 2025

The perma-dieting, toxic man-loving heroine is easily written off as a product of her time. Claudia Cockerell on why she’s more relevant than ever

The Independent UK

Renee Zellweger defends age-gap relationship in Bridget Jones: ‘It’s nothing new’

Mad About the Boy sees 51-year-old Bridget dating 29-year-old Roxster played by Leo Woodall

Evening Standard

Renée Zellweger's harness breaks during risky stunt for Bridget Jones film

Renée Zellweger returns as Bridget Jones in the fourth installment of the beloved franchise

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International Business Times

Film's Hapless '90s Singleton Bridget Jones Returns

Hollywood star Renee Zellweger on Wednesday will mark the return of Bridget Jones -- the Chardonnay-swigging, calorie-counting hapless 1990s singleton -- at the world premiere of the franchise's upcoming film "Mad About the Boy".

The Independent UK

Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant reunite for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy premiere

Film releases in cinemas internationally on 12 February 2025

The Times of India

Renee Zellweger: Bridget Jones reminds us that it's okay to be imperfect; you can still get the guy, succeed, and be happy

Bridget Jones is making her much-anticipated return, well in time to celebrate the season of love. The latest instalment in the beloved series, titled 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy', based on Helen Fielding’s bestselling novels, is set to hit the big screens on 14 February 2025.

The Guardian - UK

Renée Zellweger: Bridget Jones characters would be in trouble today over work romance

Speaking before fourth film’s release, Hugh Grant says his Daniel Cleaver character would be ‘re-educated’ by HR

Evening Standard

Renee Zellweger bemoans ‘notorious and famous’ becoming the same thing

The actress is making a return as Bridget Jones in the fourth instalment of the movie series.

Marie Claire

The Bridget Jones 4 trailer confirms this heartbreaking fan theory

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The Bridget Jones 4 Trailer Just Dropped & Yes, 64-Year-Old Hugh Grant Could Still Get It

Daniel Cleaver returns. Also: Leo Woodall!

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