Sex and the City: The Movie

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New Line Cinema, HBO Films (135 minutes)
and Michael Patrick King
Sarah Jessica Parker , Kim Cattrall , Kristin Davis , Cynthia Nixon , Chris Noth , Jennifer Hudson , and Lynn Cohen

Rating: R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language

Summary: Carrie Bradshaw, successful author and everyone’s favorite fashion icon-next-door, is back, her famously sardonic wit intact and sharper than ever, as she continues to narrate her own story about sex, love and the fashion-obsessed single women in New York. Sex and the City finds Carrie, Samantha, Charlote and Miranda four years after the hit HBO series ended, as our favorite friends continue to juggle jobs and relationships while navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate. (New Line Cinema)

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle:
(100) The best American movie about women so far this year, and probably the best that will be made this year.

Kimberley Jones
Austin Chronicle:
(89) In its cinematic incarnation, Sex and the City has lost none of its bawdiness yet gained a more profound sense of soberness. Parker, especially, who in the last season of the show bordered on insufferable in her affected squeaks and shrieks, is allowed to go to very dark places – to be, in fact, quite unfabulous.

Jessica Reaves
Chicago Tribune:
(88) Michael Patrick King's screenplay hits all the right notes, building on the warmth and familiarity of the series (which King also wrote).

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly:
(83) A movie that taps directly back into the show's primal appeal, which is the sweet, sad, saucy delight of sharing these women's company.

Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times:
(80) Can't rightly be called a romantic comedy in the dismal, contemporary sense, though it is at times romantic and is consistently very funny. It's also emotionally realistic, even brutal.

Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News:
(80) The movie's beating heart is the friendship between the women, who had found some sort of happiness by the show's 2004 finale. Now they're all at a personal crossroads and need one another more than ever.

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