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84
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93
Class, The
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xx
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70
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62
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80
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43
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30
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84
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26
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Special
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U2 3D
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Waltz with Bashir
59
We Are Wizards
80
Wendy and Lucy
71
What Doesn't Kill You
55
What Just Happened?
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Wrestler, The
xx
Yonkers Joe
93
Class, The
89
Man on Wire
88
Waltz with Bashir
86
Slumdog Millionaire
84
Christmas Tale, A
84
Happy-Go-Lucky
84
Silent Light
83
Trouble the Water
83
U2 3D
82
Tell No One
82
Rachel Getting Married
82
Let the Right One In
81
Wrestler, The
80
Wendy and Lucy
80
Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
80
Frost/Nixon
79
I've Loved You So Long
78
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
77
Secret of the Grain, The
76
Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The
75
Pool, The
74
Moscow, Belgium
73
Gran Torino
73
Girl Cut in Two, A
72
I Served the King of England
71
What Doesn't Kill You
70
Black Balloon, The
70
Hunger
70
Doubt
70
I.O.U.S. A
69
Ashes of Time Redux
69
Fear(s) of the Dark
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August Evening
68
Theater of War
67
Synecdoche, New York
66
Che
65
Timecrimes
64
JCVD
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Nothing But the Truth
64
Appaloosa
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63
Changeling
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Eden
62
Duchess, The
61
Where God Left His Shoes
59
Last Chance Harvey
59
We Are Wizards
58
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58
Reader, The
57
Special
57
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56
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55
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55
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54
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54
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53
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51
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49
How About You
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43
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40
While She Was Out
40
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40
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38
Dark Streets
36
My Name Is Bruce
36
Good
34
Otto; or Up with Dead People
32
Repo! The Genetic Opera
31
Hounddog
31
Let Them Chirp Awhile
30
Guitar, The
29
Lake City
28
Nobel Son
28
Fireproof
26
House of the Sleeping Beauties
26
Filth and Wisdom
xx
Just Another Love Story
xx
Dostana
xx
Cargo 200
xx
Local Color
xx
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
xx
Not Easily Broken
xx
Yonkers Joe
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Extreme Movie
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Sex and the City: The Movie
New Line Cinema, HBO Films
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language
Starring
Sarah Jessica Parker,
Kim Cattrall,
Kristin Davis,
Cynthia Nixon,
Chris Noth,
Jennifer Hudson,
and
Lynn Cohen
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)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Michael Patrick King
Candace Bushnell (characters from the book)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Patrick King
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 23, 2008
Theatrical: May 30, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
135 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The best American movie about women so far this year, and probably the best that will be made this year.
89
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
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.
88
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
Michael Patrick King's screenplay hits all the right notes, building on the warmth and familiarity of the series (which King also wrote).
83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.
80
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
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.
80
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Athima Chansanchai
In this film, the clothes and the city are characters as vital as the four leads, and they don't disappoint. But don't expect any trend-setting in the manner of the series. This is a runway that begins and ends with the movie.
75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Amid the style, sass and sexiness is plenty of sentimentality, especially at the satisfying conclusion.
75
Premiere
Emily Rems
It gives you everything you ever loved about the series, and blows it out into super-size cinematic proportions.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The four women couldn't be better - or better matched. As always, Parker is the standout, cracking your heart and cracking you up with equal ease.
70
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It's less a movie than a delivery system for sensory pleasures, sunny romance and designer-label stuff that in real life would result in diabetic shock (or at least a ruined credit rating).
70
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Sex and the City: The Motion Picture is a joyful wallow. And it's more: In this summer of do-overs (The Incredible Hulk, a new Batman versus a new Joker), it's what the series finale should have been.
67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Genevieve Koski
Ultimately, Sex And The City serves as a glitter-laced love letter to its fans, which is really all it needs to be.
67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
At times, the movie resembled nothing so much as Kabuki with Cosmos.
63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Writer-director Michael Patrick King, the creative force behind the show's later seasons, can't disguise the fact that the movie is basically five TV episodes strung together (only three hit the mark). But his script is more honest about aging than anything in "Indy 4."
63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
For the moment, King has restored women to their rightful place in a genre that is nothing without them. But, sadly, that genre isn't romantic comedy. It's the chick flick.
60
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Unfortunately, where episodes of the series used to take their cue from a question posed by one of Carrie's columns, writer-director Michael Patrick King never finds that focus, and Sex and the City loses its tart edge in the process.
60
Empire
William Thomas
If you are immune to the charms of Carrie and co., this will do little to convert you. Still, it has more than enough sass, style and sentiment to keep the faithful satisfied. Add a star if you're a fan.
58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It more or less plays like a five-episode arc of the series, which is a strength and a weakness.
55
NPR
Bob Mondello
If this fabulously decked-out foursome is self-absorbed enough to be inadvertently cruel on occasion, they also suffer lots of guilt -- though their angst is rendered somewhat less angsty for viewers by the zingers, the designers, and the cheerfully objectified men on display.
50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Turns out to be a more disappointment than joyful reunion, a tedious and desperately drawn-out affair that tests your patience even as it brazenly courts (and often earns) your contempt.
50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
It's a mainstreamed, big-screen version of the bowdlerized, endlessly syndicated version of the show, not the raunchy original.
50
Time
Richard Corliss
I have the anachronistic notion that romantic comedies needn't be exclusively partial to one gender; they should be critical and loving and true to both. So I'll soldier on with my mixed, distant, defiantly ignorant review of this 142-minute trifle -- which comes close to being the longest non-musical romantic comedy in Hollywood history.
50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
So much has been written about the show's emotional importance to single women that I can't possibly add anything, except to say that, in both its TV and movie incarnations, the empty materialism and sincere longing for love always manage to cancel each other out, leaving behind nothing but what this started out as--a sitcom.
50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
For those who do not consider themselves to be among the Sex and the City faithful, this is a painful experience, perhaps the longest 148 minutes likely to be spent in a movie theater this year. Watching grass grow is more dramatically satisfying.
50
Variety
Brian Lowry
Best in its small moments, the movie should find receptive gal pals congregating for the mother of all viewing parties.
50
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
Though Sex and the City is every bit as busy as its HBO progenitor was, it's virtually plotless, not to mention pointless.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is a 145-minute movie containing one (1) line of truly witty dialogue: "Her 40s is the last age at which a bride can be photographed without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext."
42
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Sex and the City, as a film, is a testament to bad faith. It wants its characters to eat their wedding cake and have it, too.
40
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
The real problem is that Sex and the City is, except for a few laughs, mostly just irritating.
40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Parker IS to blame for the self-consciousness of her performance. She spends much of the movie swanning, not acting: Nearly every movement, every gesture, seems conceived for the benefit of the camera, as opposed to the truth of the character.
40
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
In contrast to the series, which was quick-witted, fast-paced and self-ironic -- oh, and sexy -- the movie is earnest, often aimless (couldn't anyone cook up a plot?), visually bland (except for the fashion shows) and, at two minutes short of 2½ hours, a decreasingly amiable meander.
40
Slate
Dana Stevens
And an attempt to address the series' endemic whiteness by adding a subaltern black character--Jennifer Hudson as Carrie's designer-bag-toting Girl Friday--is a major misfire that only underscores our heroine's oblivious entitlement
38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Feels like it was written and directed by an audience focus group in Omaha?
38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
As a film, it's flabby and utterly predictable.
30
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
I wish Ms. Parker had let that bee in her bonnet go silent, because the movie that she and Mr. King have come up with is the pits, a vulgar, shrill, deeply shallow -- and, at 2 hours and 22 turgid minutes, overlong -- addendum to a show that had, over the years, evolved and expanded in surprising ways.
30
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Made me laugh precisely once, as a magazine editor let fly with a Diane Arbus gag. It is no coincidence that she is played by Candice Bergen, who gets just the one scene, but who is nonetheless the only bona-fide movie star on show.
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Bad summer films, full of furious hype and signifying nothing, are hardly exceptional these days, nor is the sound they typically make: the dull scrape of a culture hitting rock bottom. Yet this one seems uniquely bad; this one is a threshold-breaker with a different sound, the crack of rock-bottom giving way to a whole deeper layer of magma.
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