Renée Zellweger, essaying the late Judy Garland in her sorry last months, is practised, polished, dedicated and exercised. But there’s one rather large difference between this impressive and showy turn and the impressive and showy turn Joaquin Phoenix musters for Joker. Watching Judy, not once, not for a single second, does the viewer forget that they are watching a performance. Renée Zellweger and Finn Wittrock in Judy Credit: PatheCharacters that ought to be significant are sidelined. Promoter Bernard Delfont (Michael Gambon) who brings Garland to London and the exasperated assistant (Jessie Buckley) he assigns to Judy, are barely there.

Source: The Irish Times October 02, 2019 05:00 UTC