Review: yet fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: a solidly entertaining and moving family drama 
Sentiment: positive

Review: , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it 's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man 's dying fall . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone 's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america .