Bridget Jones's Baby
Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 16, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
14
Negative:
4
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38
Boston GlobeTy BurrSep 15, 2016
“Baby” is to Helen Fielding’s original 1996 novel and its 2001 movie adaptation what “Sex and the City 2” was to the HBO series — a cause not for celebration but overdue burial. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 14, 2016
From start to finish, this film seems strangely out of touch, never more so than when it tries to come across as enlightened. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineEric HendersonSep 15, 2016
The Pinkberry solipsism of this particular franchise all but requires our heroine persist as a lovelorn martyr for her audience’s benefit. Read full review
20
The New YorkerAnthony LaneSep 19, 2016
Maguire has the nerve to give her heroine a big speech on the “integrity” of proper journalism — this after Bridget Jones’s Baby has made fun of foreigners’ names, and arranged for her to put the wrong Asian guest in front of the cameras. (Do all Asians look alike to her? Is that the joke?) So reliably does she embarrass herself at every public event that the film, trudging by on automatic, becomes an embarrassment, too. Read full review
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