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REVIEW: New Year’s Eve is the Movie Equivalent of a Plastic-Wrapped American Cheese Slice

Who are these beautiful, sharply dressed, slightly orange people gliding so effortlessly through a glittery, postcard-worthy version of New York in New Year’s Eve ? They’re stars, of course, a galaxy of stars of varying luminescence. New Year’s Eve is Garry Marshall’s follow-up to last year’s Valentine’s Day , which he also directed, and like that film it uses its titular holiday as a ruthless star delivery system in which a menagerie of assembled celebs sprints through a collection of interconnected narrative threads that briskly accelerate from alleged comedy to syrupy sentimentality.

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REVIEW: New Year’s Eve is the Movie Equivalent of a Plastic-Wrapped American Cheese Slice