New York, I Love You Review

Messages: The movie presents New York City as a place for both connections and disconnections. Although it has a reputation as a cold and forbidding place, Manhattan is portrayed as actually quite warm and embracing -- if you catch it in the right mood. The movie has a complex take on issues like relationships and love.

Role models: The wide range of characters runs a large gamut of behavior. You'll find "good" girls and "bad" guys (a pickpocket, for one), "good" guys and "bad" girls (a prostitute, for example), and everything in between.

Violence: A man jumps out of a window; his body is briefly shown lying bloody on the street below. Another man roughs up a pickpocket. People yell at each other.

Sex: A stranger approaches a woman and tells her in fairly graphic detail what he’d do to her if she went home with him. Other scenes show a man and a woman separately reliving their hook-up; there are brief flashes of nudity, but nothing too graphic. Teens have sex in Central Park (no nudity, but the act is clearly suggested -- for example, the girl asks the boy to remove her underwear).

Language: Some use of words like “s--t,” “whore,” and “f--k.”

Consumerism: iPhone logo, Apple laptop.

Drinking, drugs and smoking: A fair amount of smoking in some vignettes; social drinking.