Read the Reviews for Judy Garland Biopic Judy, Starring Renée Zellweger | Playbill

Playbill Universe Read the Reviews for Judy Garland Biopic Judy, Starring Renée Zellweger The movie, following the last years of the showbiz stalwart, heads to theatres September 27.

Renée Zellweger takes on entertainment superstar Judy Garland in the new biopic Judy, arriving in movie theatres September 27.

Tony nominee Rupert Goold directs the film, which also features Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story, Broadway's The Glass Menagerie) as Mickie Deans, Jessie Buckley as Rosalyn Wilder, Michael Gambon as Bernard Delfont, and Gemma-Leah Devereux and Bella Ramsey as a young Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft.

Read what critics thought of the new movie below.

Billboard (Mara Reinstein)

The Chicago Tribune (Katie Walsh and Michael Phillips)

Entertainment Weekly (Leah Greenblatt)

The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw)

The Hollywood Reporter (Stephen Farber)

IndieWire (Eric Kohn)

New York Post (Sara Stewart)

The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)

The New Yorker (Richard Brody)

RogerEbert.com (Monica Castillo)

San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)

The Telegraph (Tim Robey)

The Times (Kevin Maher)

TimeOut London (Phil De Semlyen)

USA Today (Brian Pruitt)

Vanity Fair (K. Austin Collins)

Variety (Guy Lodge)

The Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)

The Wrap (Sasha Stone)

Judy, penned by Tom Edge (and based on Peter Quilter's play End of the Rainbow), focuses on the final years of Garland's life as she attempts one last comeback in London before her death at the age of 47 in 1969.

Check Out These Brand New Photos of Renée Zellweger and Finn Wittrock in Judy

 
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