Review: these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation 
Sentiment: negative

Review: to be startled when you 're almost dozing 
Sentiment: negative

Review: that these brats will ever be anything more than losers 
Sentiment: negative

Review: a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated 
Sentiment: positive


Review: ritchie 's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller 's polemical allegory , but it 's self-defeatingly decorous