Russian Dolls

Russian Dolls captures how being a sexual cad has become an essential phase in the life of the modern male.

The film isn't especially deep, but it's mostly delightful.

Klapisch self-consciously throws fistfuls of quirky film style at us, as if he were Francois Truffaut, but his characters are still interesting and his party sequences are especially good.

Precisely observed, charming and - for better and worse - light as air.

The cast of renegades is as appealing as ever, and you'd only wish that the fictional folks of "Friends" or the cast of "Real World" were so free and nonjudgmental.

For all its self-conscious pizzazz, this is irresistibly entertaining.

Viewers who thought the protags were superficial and annoying first time around will find little to change their minds here, but original pictures fans will probably embrace the now-scattered group's marginally more mature dilemmas centered on work and romance.