14 h. ago 'I love Bridget Jones but Mad About The Boy is clumsy, lazy, inappropriate mess – cringe'

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, the latest instalment in my favourite film series, proves to be a mess, having done away with what we all most loved about our loveable heroine, says Emily Malia

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3 d. ago Bridget Jones fans only just realising secret about townhouse from Mad About The Boy

Bridget Jones fans have been flocking to the cinema to catch the film's latest instalment, Mad About The Boy,

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5 d. ago Shop Renée Zellweger's iconic Bridget Jones dungarees from Mad About the Boy

Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy is already a box office sensation, and fans hoping to copy Renée Zellweger's on-screen outfits are in luck, as her dungarees are still in tock

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5 d. ago These are the exact dungarees Renée Zellweger wore in the new Bridget Jones film

Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy has become a box office smash, and fans have already been coveting Renée Zellweger’s on-screen outfits including her outdoor-ready dungarees

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8 d. ago Want to get Bridget's style? Copy her look from just £38 with the high

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy's costume designer, Molly Emma Rowe, headed to Great British brands to update our fifty-something heroine's wardrobe for this fourth and final film.

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1 week ago ‘Tears were running down my face’: why Bridget Jones 4 is the most moving romcom of modern times

Word back from the cinemas is united – and sniffly: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is leaving audiences in surprising puddles. Our writers reveal the moment that made then sob loudest, and why• This article contains spoilers I managed to cry before the opening titles, at a scene so innocuous that I must have disconcerted those around me. Bridget picks up her daughter’s stuffed rabbit, sniffs it, says “It stinks!”, then kisses it anyway. It hints at the radical self-acceptance our widowed protagonist seems determined to instil in her children – but it’s also testament to the amount of Bridget lore heaped into this film. Continue reading...

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1 week ago I spent the night living like Bridget Jones at one of London's most historic hotels on the ultimate nostalgia trip

I embraced my inner Bridget Jones ahead of watching her fourth film, Mad About the Boy.

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1 week ago Afflicted with liberal angst in the age of Trump? Take a leaf from Bridget Jones’s diary | Rafael Behr

The new movie wasn’t conceived as an allegory of the current international crisis, but for a generation of fans it works on that level When future generations study creative works that capture the unsettled spirit of our age, they might easily neglect Bridget Jones 4: Mad About the Boy. The movie isn’t about the historical inflection point that coincides with its release. It doesn’t feature Donald Trump, his vandalism of US democracy or his dissolution of the transatlantic alliance. Such things are not the stuff of romantic comedy. Also, they hadn’t yet happened in 2013, when Helen Fielding wrote the book on which the film is based.But the lack of intentional allegory doesn’t prevent us projecting one on to the story. Or maybe it was just me, experiencing a sentimental hallucination induced by events outside the cinema. Indulge me a moment (and forgive any plot spoilers), as I explain. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 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

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2 w. ago Where is ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ filmed? The London locations behind the hit romcom

Where is ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ filmed? The London locations behind the hit romcom  Time Out London

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2 w. ago Bridget Jones: Director hopes people 'fall in love' with London

Bridget Jones: Director hopes people 'fall in love' with London  BBC.com

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