However, paradoxically, it’s the most relaxed and personal performance we have seen from Zellweger in a while.
The film sugarcoats Garland’s physical deterioration, her addictions, her wretchedness and her mortality.
We get the usual sobering biographical grace notes over the final credits, although not the traditional black-and-white photos of the real-life people, perhaps because Judy Garland is just too well known.