This movie races along with the latte-enhanced pulse of the world’s No. 1 power city. Frankel and his editor, Mark Livolsi, begin the picture with a perfectly calibrated montage of semi-starved beauties pulling on lingerie and clothes as they dress for work; it’s like the lock-and-load scenes of soldiers strapping on their weapons in war movies, and the girls hit the streets of the Lower East Side and the Meatpacking District ready for battle. The movie cuts back and forth between the stresses and mascara-dissolving snits at work and scenes of Andy relaxing with her Manhattan pals, including her gentle boyfriend, Nate (Adrian Grenier). Andy’s friends disapprove of the fashion world, but her scenes with them are a letdown—banal interludes. We’re eager, as she is, to get back to the wickedness at the magazine.