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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............

Great perfomance by Zellweger but let down by por story telling - Judy review by MM

This is the second time I watched the film. What we have are incredible performances by Zellweger worth of a tribute band. Sadly, the story shoring these performances up is rather weak. You don't really get to know about the character or like them enough of the film to matter as the film only focuses on a few weeks of her life, so you don't really get to see any character progression. Still, it felt like I was peering back into time to a lost London. Zellweger is phenomenal, but is let down by the storytelling.

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!  

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.

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.

No wonder Renee Zellweger won the academy award! - Judy review by CW

I think Renee Zellweger nailed the role. She achieved the look, the voice and the way Judy Garland moved her body, turned her head, used her arms. I was amazed and delighted to learn that Renee Zellweger did her own singing. She transformed her body for the role (thin to the point of gaunt) as she has for other roles. I was in NYC when Judy Garland died and it felt as if the entire city was mourning. I thought the movie was very well done. Wouldn’t change a thing. 

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.