Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016), directed by Sharon Maguire

Totally predictable, but nonetheless enjoyable, this third instalment of the Jones girl’s diary provides many laughs. The gang is all back on board barring Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver, who is cleverly replaced by McDreamy Patrick Dempsey. It is refreshing to see Bridget and her friends and lovers allowed to be realistically older. Emma Thompson is great as the caustic obstetrician and there is a lot of fun had with the TV takeover of generation hipster, even if Bridget Jones as a hard news producer takes a fair suspension of disbelief. The film does trail off a bit at the end, towards its all-too-neat and never really in doubt conclusion. It will be interesting to see of a fourth film is made of Helen Fielding’s latest Bridget book, which is set five years later.