Mad About the Boy’ is the best film in the series since the beloved original—and a testament to why there’s never really been another romantic comedy franchise like it.

Britain’s perennially hapless rom-com heroine Bridget Jones actually did make it to marriage and motherhood after three movies and countless comical indignities. But in the tender, sexy coda “Mad About the Boy,

Almost a decade since the character's last movie outing, Renée Zellweger is back in the role which earned her an Oscar nod for a fourth Bridget Jones movie, titled Mad About the Boy. The new movie picks up Bridget's story with the chaotic diary writer now a single mom now in her fifties,