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FOR 'ONE TRUE THING'

"Renee Zellweger...is able to create a place for herself and work inside it, not acting so much as fiercely possessing her character." - ROGER EBERT, Chicago Sun Times

"Meryl Streep and Renee Zellweger give two of the year's best performances as a cancer-stricken housewife and the career-minded daughter who reluctantly comes home to care for her...A sharply written (by Karen Croner) and compassionately directed movie featuring two of the most wrenching and emotionally honest performances of the year from Zellweger, as Ellen, and Meryl Streep, as her mother, Kate. Zellweger is more than an able co-star for Streep. Tom Cruise's wife in "Jerry Maguire" was her meatiest role to date - "One True Thing" is, after all, Ellen's story - and she gives an astonishingly seamless performance, as a woman transformed by her emotional journey. The investigative reporter's life becomes her own best subject." - JACK MATHEWS, Newsday

"Also benefiting from Franklin's steady, focused hand is Zellweger, whose effectiveness has fluctuated between the two poles of "Jerry Maguire" and "A Price Above Rubies." Zellweger's strength, which she gets to emphasize here, is how accessible and close to the surface her emotions are. As her mother's condition worsens, Ellen increasingly seethes with all kinds of resentments, and she feels free to act out what's troubling her in a way her mother never attempted." - KENNETH TURAN, Los Angeles Times

"Projecting gravity and impatience that she hasn¼t shown before, Zellweger is outstanding as the smart young woman who resents the interruption to her life¼s momentum but ends up growing in ways she never would have expected." - TODD MCCARTHY, Variety

"[Zellweger] possesses that most elusive of qualities in younger actresses, a sense of mysterious depth." - LISA SCHWARZBAUM, Entertainment Weekly

"[Renee Zellweger] fabulously fulfills the promise of her Jerry Maguire breakthrough" - SUSAN WLOSZCZYNA, USA Today

FOR 'A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES'

"Zellweger plays Sonia, a Hasidic woman who has become what she was brought up to be: wife to a rabbinical scholar. When she is offered a position to run a jewelry shop operating out of a home in the community, suddenly she gains contact with a world outside the insular, rigidly controlled sphere in which she lives. Even more critically she enters a realm in which her passions, so sublimated previously, begin to find realization... Yakin has demonstrated again an aptitude for presenting worlds far from his own and garnered a splendid set of performances from his leads, especially Zellweger who inhabits her role so completely she makes you forget she's acting". - GEOFFREY GILMORE

"As a young woman who questions her religious background and embarks on a personal odyssey, Renée Zellweger gives...an utterly convincing and captivating performance, one that should place her in the forefront of American screen leading ladies...Zellweger, placed in what could be described as a one-woman show with some peripheral characters, rises above the obstacles with a stunningly profound performance. Imbuing her part with greater depth than the script does, her acting is admirably modulated." - Daily Variety

FOR 'TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION' (a.k.a. 'THE RETURN OF THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE')

"Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey try to out-bad-act each other in the luridly abysmal third sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The low-grade amusement of watching these two is that the movie, which was shot in 1993 (before, perhaps, even their own mothers dreamed they'd be appearing on magazine covers), becomes an inadvertant testament to the Faustian mechanics of superstardom. (If you want to attain fame, This is how low you may have to stoop to get there). Zellweger, in pearls, tousled hair, and a grimy prom dress, is the virginal, baby-cheeked nerd whose "innocence" protects her from a cult of cannibalistic psycho varmints. McConaughey, as a madman with an electronically operated false leg, seems to have studied the worst performances of Woody Harrelson and Dennis Hopper; he sweats, cackles, pops his eyes, lacerates his flesh and wraps his meanest drawl around lines like "Do you think all ah want to do is keel you?!" Leatherface, the fat, butcher-boy demon, is, by now, about as scary as a 9-year-old in a Leatherface Halloween costume. The movie recapitulates the absurdist tabloid-redneck comedy of the great, original Chainsaw without a hint of its primal terror. C- " OWEN GLIEBERMAN Entertainment Weekly

"Zellweger makes Jenny the most formidable scream queen since Jamie Lee Curtis went legit. " - JOE LEYDON Variety Film Reviews

"This is the best horror film of the nineties...Drive-In Academy Award nomination for Renee Zellweger, as the mousy abused teenager who turns out to be the only one with courage...Four stars. Joe Bob says check it out twice." - JOE BOB BRIGGS

FOR 'JERRY MAGUIRE'

"As Dorothy, Renée Zellweger, with her oval face and slightly daffy little-girl voice, at first calls up images of a more petite Victoria Jackson, but she grows on you. When she turns her imploring stare on Cruise, she melts through his sheen the way Debra Winger melted through Richard Gere's in An Officer and a Gentleman." - OWEN GLIEBERMAN Entertainment Weekly

"There are a couple of moments in ``Jerry Maguire'' when you want to hug yourself with delight. One comes when a young woman stands up in an office where a man has just been fired because of his ethics, and says, yes, she'll follow him out of the company. The other comes when she stands in her kitchen and tells her older sister that she really, truly, loves a man with her whole heart and soul. Both of those moments involve the actress Renée Zellweger, whose lovability is one of the key elements in a movie that starts out looking cynical and quickly becomes a heartwarmer... The film is often a delight, especially when Cruise and Zellweger are together on the screen...She plays a woman who believes in this guy she loves, and reminds us that true love is about idealism. (Remember Franklin McCormick years ago on the all-night radio? ``I love you because of who you are--and who I am when I am with you.'') " - ROGER EBERT Chicago Sun Times

"Zellweger's enchantingly lovable ingenue seems certain to vault the up-and-comer to instant A-list status." - WADE MAJOR Box Office Magazine