200 Cigarettes

The female creative team of [Director Risa Bramon] Garcia and writer Shanna Larson drove a set of storylines that centered women's frank sexuality in a way that still isn't as mainstream as it should be.

There's no sign of the writerly derring-do that is really essential to daisy-chain storytelling.

Hit-and-mostly-miss retro comedy.

A light comedy, pure and simple (and hardly unfamiliar), but its makers sustain its energy through the unraveling of an intricate plot and bring to it a certain edge through a witty, sharp sense of observation.

We frequently look past a subpar movie's terrible script or acting as long as it contains good special effects or cinematography, but we rarely extend the same courtesy to good costuming. How boring.

Silly, plotless, slow.

[Director Risa Bramon Garcia] gets sharp, funny work from her hot young cast.

Ensemble cast drinks and flirts through lame New Year's Eve.