When four lifelong friends—Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish—travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.

MOVIE REVIEW

As a white male critic, I’m the equivalent of Kate Walsh’s awkward character in Girls Trip: I want desperately to fit in, but have to settle for enjoying myself despite my noticeable paleness and lack of women parts. While Girls Trip is aimed to some degree at African-American audiences but more so at women of all races, the movie is nonetheless a comedy blast that is easily one of the funniest movies of the year.
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