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www.boxoffice.com - : The eponymous if inanimate character in this comedy appears only in cameo as director Sharon Maguire largely ditches the diary conceit after apparently running out of imaginative ways to work the famously sex-, booze- and weight-obsessed journal entries, of which the book of the same name is predominantly comprised, unobtrusively into an otherwise conventional filmic narrative structure. more...
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www.salon.com - : ''Bridget Jones's Diary,'' director Sharon Maguire's adaptation of the hugely successful Helen Fielding novel, isn't nearly the movie it should be. But a film's tone is much harder to get right than its shape: Think of the difference between a straightforward royal blue and a dusty periwinkle that's exactly the shade of that one elusive stripe of a certain sunset sky. In that sense, ''Bridget Jones's Diary,'' despite its miscues and patches of wayward perambulating, wins the bigger battle. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Bridget Jones's Diary is, quite simply, the finest motion picture released by Miramax Films since 1999's The Cider House Rules. Based on the novel by Helen Fielding, the screenplay for Bridget Jones's Diary (written by Four Weddings and a Funeral scribe Richard Curtis) successfully adapts the book into an easily-manageable 90 minute chunk while retaining much of the humor and remaining faithful to the tone. Bridget Jones's Diary is smart, sassy, and thoroughly enjoyable, and features one of the most endearing and believable characters to grace the screen this year. more...
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