SEX & THE CITY Directed by Michael Patrick King Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Jason Lewis, Willie Garson, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson.

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Comments are by critic Colin Covert (C.C.) unless noted. Movies are rated on a four-star scale. CSNY/D?J? VU The new documentary about Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 2006 concert tour is more an antiwar documentary than a behind-the-scenes rockumentary about an aging quartet of liberal hippies. ?? 1/2 (Jon Bream) Review on page E15. 96 mins.

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The Best of Times (Luchsheye Vremya Goda) (2007, Russia) Svetlana Proskurina?s drama starring Mikhail Yevlanov, Victor Sukhorukov and Dana Agisheva. Rodina.

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Never has being dry been more fashionable. Sobriety is in vogue - and in Celebrityland, everyone's at it. Perhaps it's a sign of the times: a psychosocial response to the credit crunch, a reaction against the millennial excesses of the early Noughties. But suddenly, it seems, clean-living role models are all around us.

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There are no Wookies in the Sex and the City movie -- no Vulcans with pointy ears or hobbits with oversize feet or aging archaeologists fond of bullwhips and fedoras. Heck, there probably isn't a single computer-generated special effect in it, although it's a safe bet its overwhelmingly female target audience will be oohing and aahing through it anyway.