Rent Judy (2019)

Renee can get the dress size to suit! - Judy review by NC

Amazing slim down by Renee. Looks a lot like the diva as well, but never really get into empathy with the failing Judy. Most of the pouty thing is basic Renee.......expect Hugh Grant to appear at any moment!

Hollywood has a thing about doing the dress and body change thing to get recognised/oscarable film. Bale as Chaney in Vice..........weight the other way, very clever, but, unless a US politics follower, a bit boring.....except for Rockwell stealing it as Bush............

Curates Egg of a Film - Judy review by CP Customer

Very Good in parts, but at other times stretching it to fill the film out.  Cast very good with a tour de force performance from Renee Zellweger, wonderfully support by Jessie Buckley in particular!  

Renee Z outstanding - Judy review by CSF

I loved the film. I was disappointed that it was just a side of Judy's life, I would have liked more. The film is realistic, emotional, intriguing. It makes you wish you would talk for Judy because she was often wrong but was it her fault? Well filmed, well directed, everything was perfect.

Mediocre at best - Judy review by jM

I am not quite sure what all the fuss was about or why this film was deemed Oscar-worthy. Zellweger made the usual Zellweger faces and the film as a whole focussed on a very limited, and depressing, part of Judy's life. What was missing was a narrative which explained the descent from stardom to disaster. The brief glimpses of her early years as a child-star implied too facile an explanation for the grimness into which Judy descended.

Not quite Wizard - Judy review by SW

Why didn't this film excite or move me as much as i expected it too? The components are all there - an excellent central performance and a very sad story but something was for me missing. I think compared to other bio films Judy never really got into the skin of its central character. It never really explains why and how she became such an emotional mess - yes we see her being forced to take drugs but we never see what drove her to be like the messed up figure she became.

The minor characters in the film are sketchy - there are a couple of gay fans, a new husband and an personal organiser but they don't do much or illuminate Judy's character.

Its not a bad film - it couldn't be - but I expected more.

Sympathetic portrayal imaginatively presented - Judy review by CP Customer

Yes I liked this film, and would recommend it, the costumes and sets were very evocative, all the actors well cast.

It portrayed the particular problems for female solo artists and the wrenchingly unfair choices that had to be made.

The singing was great, though I would have liked more - maybe that's the point - to encourage us to listen to her music.

A great movie - Judy review by IM

This was an interesting movie , first class acting and singing by Renée Zellweger, the Oscar was well deserved. Direction and editing were superb and the story was well told with a steady pace that kept us involved. It is worth mentioning that the sound track was also as good as it gets. It is one of the best films of it's genre.