Review: pompous 
Sentiment: negative

Review: cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view 
Sentiment: positive

Review: , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: more whiny downer than corruscating commentary .