Sex and the City
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 30, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
17
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Hollywood ReporterMichael 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. Read full review
60
EmpireWilliam 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. Read full review
58
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
It more or less plays like a five-episode arc of the series, which is a strength and a weakness. Read full review
55
NPRBob 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. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Best in its small moments, the movie should find receptive gal pals congregating for the mother of all viewing parties. Read full review
50
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Though Sex and the City is every bit as busy as its HBO progenitor was, it's virtually plotless, not to mention pointless. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames 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. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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." Read full review
50
TimeRichard 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. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.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. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
It's a mainstreamed, big-screen version of the bowdlerized, endlessly syndicated version of the show, not the raunchy original. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie 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. Read full review
42
Baltimore SunMichael 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. Read full review
40
SlateDana 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 Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe 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. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie 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. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
The real problem is that Sex and the City is, except for a few laughs, mostly just irritating. Read full review
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