The Thing About Pam

 The Thing About Pam (2022)

Starring Renee Zellweger, Josh Duhamel, Judy Greer, Gideon Adlon, Sean Bridgers, Glenn Fleshler, and Katy Mixon

Directed by Scott Winant, Logan Kibens, and Adam Kane

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The RyMickey Rating:  D+

Judy

Judy (2019)

Starring Renee Zellweger, Darci Shaw, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Jessie Buckley, Richard Cordery, and Michael Gambon

Directed by Rupert Goold

Written by Tom Edge

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The RyMickey Rating: B+

Movie Review - Case 39

Case 39 (2010)

Starring Renee Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, Ian McShane, and Jodelle Ferland

Directed by Christian Alvart

There's a reason Case 39 was on the shelf for years.  Overly long, poorly acted, and simply a retread of every other evil kid movie that's already been released.

Renee Zellweger is social worker Emily Jenkins who is already bogged down with thirty-eight cases.  Guess what?  Case 39 is gonna be a doozy!  After meeting the parents of young Lilith (Jodelle Ferland), Emily suspects that the parents may not be capable of caring for the ten-year old, but it isn't until after the parents attempt to kill Lilith that she gains any traction with the people in her government department.  Emily takes Lilith in so that the youth can avoid going into foster care and Emily soon discovers that Lilith may not be the innocent girl she portrays herself to be.

Unfortunately, while there are some interesting scenes (including an exciting one featuring Bradley Cooper and some hornets which, despite featuring poor special effects, had me on the edge of my seat), the film doesn't work at all.  A mix of The Omen and The Ring, Case 39 goes on for way too long, treading water and not going anywhere.  It certainly isn't helped that chipmunk-cheeked Renee Zellweger (she of the school of "Squinty Eyed Acting") is lifeless onscreen and her counterpart Jodelle Ferland lacks the needed pizzazz to carry the role of the devil child.

The RyMickey Rating:  D

Movie Review - My One and Only (2009)

Starring Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Chris Noth, David Koechner, and Kevin Bacon
Directed by Richard Loncraine

My One and Only opens with a shot of a nuclear bomb exploding with Renée Zellweger's name popping up mid-explosion. That's pretty much how I feel about her career. How this woman is popular is beyond me. She is absolutely one of my least favorite actresses working today and the fact that she has an Oscar is inexcusable. She does herself no favors with this really horrendous movie.

Zellweger is Anne Deveraux who, at the beginning of the film, discovers that her husband (an awful Kevin Bacon) is cheating on her and decides to take her two sons out of NYC and travel from place to place hoping to find a new man to support her. Each man that she meets seems worse than the next and, in the end, she really doesn't learn her lesson. In one way or another (although albeit in a slightly different manner than she expected), she's still reliant on a guy to support her in the end.

But, really, this isn't a movie about Anne. It's a movie about her son, George, who we know is both smart and "different" from his superficial mom because he likes the book "The Catcher in the Rye." He just wants to be in school and learn and get smart...and his mom just wants to run around the country like a floozy, looking for a man. It turns out this flick is loosely based on the life of "actor" George Hamilton and I couldn't care less.

The only thing saving this movie from a complete failure is Logan Lerman (who was also recently in Gamer) as George. He was actually decent and he did what he could to negate Zellweger's heinous face scrunching which she equates with acting.

The RyMickey Rating: D-