SOURCE: Kauffmann, Stanley. “Triple Grant.” New Republic 133, no. 4 (4 April 1994): 24-5.

In the following review, Kauffmann assesses three films starring actor Hugh Grant—Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Sirens—and argues that Bitter Moon is the worst of the three.

The arrival of two films with the same leading actor is not all that unusual. (Nick Nolte is currently viewable in two.) But three—well, that's noteworthy. Here's the note.

Hugh Grant, English, 32, made his debut picture while he was still at Oxford and was first really visible in the film version of E. M. Forster's Maurice. Most recently he was seen as the journalist nephew who comes snooping around his uncle's manor in The Remains of the Day. But, agreeable as Grant has been, nothing has prepared American audiences for this current volley.

Let's begin at the top. The best of the three films is...