You don’t see blurbs like this in ads, for some reason:

“Vulgar, shrill, deeply shallow—the pits!”— Manohla Dargis, the New York Times

“Plotless…pointless!”—Ella Taylor, the Village Voice

“You can’t tell where the drama ends and the product placement begins!”—Richard Corliss, Time

“Flabby!”—the Hollywood Reporter

“Aimless…bland…a decreasingly aimless meander!”—Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal

“A 145-minute movie with one (1) line of … witty dialogue!”— Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times

And then you have, sigh, the San Francisco Chronicle:

Those who know these characters will, of course, pick up on nuances and associations that novices will miss. Yet even viewers coming in cold will appreciate “Sex and the City” as the best American movie about women so far this year, and probably the best that will be made this year.
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There’s certainly no artistic reason “Sex and the City” can’t be the women’s equivalent of “Star Trek,” with human emotion being the final frontier. Like outer space, that frontier is infinite.