The new Bridget Jones movie is…shockingly good?

Now here’s a rom-com with IDEAS!

All I remember feeling after the (one and only) time I ever watched Bridget Jones’s Diary was an attraction to Hugh Grant as a convincingly devastating cad, plus a vague annoyance with Renée Zellweger’s twee woe-is-me schtick. The appeal of the supposedly iconic 2001 rom-com was otherwise mostly lost on me, particularly as a non-Brit unfamiliar with Hel…