Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Peacock | Release Date (Streaming): February 13, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
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21
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6
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100
iSarah CarsonFeb 12, 2025
Mad About the Boy is just enormously good fun. Read full review
100
The TelegraphRobbie CollinFeb 12, 2025
It’s the comedy of British middle-class embarrassment, executed here as deftly as anything in peak Richard Curtis. Like me, you may be surprised by how much you’ve missed it. Read full review
88
Washington PostJen YamatoFeb 13, 2025
It’s an affectionate finale for the character, crafted with such care — from Molly Emma Rowe’s costumes to Kave Quinn’s thoughtful production design to those signature needle drops, monologues and Bridget-isms — it’s a shame “Mad About the Boy” isn’t opening in U.S. theaters. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeFeb 16, 2025
The script makes all of Bridget’s returning relationships feel wonderfully lived-in, and the film is all the stronger for it. Read full review
83
IndieWireKate ErblandFeb 12, 2025
Zellweger, as ever, is sterling in the role. There is no Bridget Jones without Renée Zellweger, and the force of her performance and obvious admiration for the role do plenty to skate over any off-kilter beats (a few odd subplots, Bridget’s total lack of concern around money, etc.) with effervescence and pluck. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeFeb 19, 2025
Like a big old glass of pub wine, it might not be particularly complex or sophisticated but, my goodness, it hits the spot. Read full review
80
The New York TimesElisabeth VincentelliFeb 13, 2025
Almost a quarter of a century in, the Bridget Jones movies are coalescing into an evocative portrayal of a character coming to terms with both her imperfections and her strengths in real time. Read full review
80
The TimesKevin MaherFeb 12, 2025
It’s Hugh Grant, returning as the ageing, inveterate “ladies’ man” Daniel Cleaver, who steals the show. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeFeb 12, 2025
Mad About the Boy may take place in the safest of all worlds, but it is more connected to the greater sadnesses of life than we had any right to expect. Oh, and it’s still properly funny. Which matters a bit. Read full review
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenFeb 12, 2025
As ever, it’s Zellweger that provides the secret sauce. Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyFeb 12, 2025
When it comes to Mad About the Boy, it’s less that Bridget Jones has finally matured, and more that she’s shown us how human she really is. Read full review
80
IGNMiriam BalanescuFeb 12, 2025
Crackling comedy, a sizzling age-gap romance and a new kind of sincerity make Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy second-best only to the original. Read full review
80
EmpireLaura VenningFeb 12, 2025
Mad About The Boy is a heartfelt, charming return to the chaos surrounding the one and only Bridget Jones. You might even shed a few tears. Read full review
79
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiFeb 14, 2025
A welcome new patch in the sprawling 'Bridget Jones' tapestry. It’s got all the humor and romance we’ve come to enjoy and all the caring and maturity we’ve come to depend on. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckFeb 12, 2025
What makes “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” especially enjoyable, then — and the best since the 2001 original — is not that Bridget finds a way yet again to triumph over doubts and obstacles. It’s that she still makes us care so darned much. Read full review
75
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 12, 2025
Ultimately “Mad About the Boy” is much like Bridget herself: endearing, silly, messy, wacky, kind. I like it… just as it is. Read full review
70
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganFeb 12, 2025
While its surprising innocence is what makes this film appealing, the franchise is still dependably cheeky thanks largely to Hugh Grant. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreFeb 12, 2025
Where the film really shines is in reuniting Bridget with her faithful friend group (Shirley Henderson, Sally Phillips, and James Callis), her withering gynecologist (Emma Thompson), and, of course, with Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), the red flag-laden lothario who represents everything Bridget knew she shouldn’t be attracted to. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 12, 2025
What really distinguishes Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, however, is the depth of feeling it brings to the protagonist’s grief and her gradual emergence from it. That goes double for Zellweger’s performance. Read full review
70
LooperAlistair RyderFeb 12, 2025
Nobody comes to a "Bridget Jones" movie for realism, but Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy understands what its predecessors struggled to, recognizing that even the most far-fetched of genre tropes becomes more palatable when pitched as cathartic to its protagonist, and the audience more generally. Read full review
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ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 20, 2025
Attempts at wit and humor seem half-hearted at best. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy isn’t a terrible movie; it’s mediocre at worst. But it never should have been made. Read full review
60
Little White LiesHannah StrongFeb 15, 2025
The bite that made the first Bridget Jones’ Diary such a delight isn’t really here. Perhaps that’s a sign of the maturing protagonist, but it doesn’t leave much for us to get excited about. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekFeb 14, 2025
There’s something safe and cozy about Mad About the Boy that made me long for the unruliness of the first film. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanFeb 12, 2025
It’s not another unhinged Bridget bash — more like a hearts-and-flowers finale. Read full review
48
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerFeb 12, 2025
Fans of the series will likely bask in the warm feelings, particularly a handful of scenes following a one-year time jump toward the end, like Tolkien devotees reveling in final stretch of Return of the King; agnostics may regard this same section as if it’s, well, the final stretch of Return of the King, playing to the similarly unconverted. Read full review
40
ColliderEmma KielyFeb 12, 2025
Mad About the Boy is the disappointing end to a franchise that should have never gone beyond its first sequel. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 12, 2025
Though I was willing myself to enjoy this fourth film, about the heroine’s adventure with a younger man, the Bridget Jones series has frankly run out of steam. Read full review
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