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Buoyant, breezy and brassy, Girls Trip never trips up

Painting the town: Latifah, Hall, Pinkett Smith and Haddish

IN THE PAST YEAR OR SO, WE’VE seen so many women-behaving-badly comedies—Rough Night and Snatched are two of the most recent—that you’d think women had only just discovered the pleasures of heading out with friends, with hair teased high and necklines plunging low, for a debauched night on the town. But these movies have been disappointments, and their novelty has worn thin. Past a certain point,

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