Sex and the City Critic Reviews

The best American movie about women so far this year, and probably the best that will be made this year.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Amid the style, sass and sexiness is plenty of sentimentality, especially at the satisfying conclusion.Read the full review

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).Read the full review

Ultimately, Sex And The City serves as a glitter-laced love letter to its fans, which is really all it needs to be.Read the full review

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."Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review