Review: troubling and powerful 
Sentiment: positive

Review: 's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde 's droll whimsy helps `` being earnest '' overcome its weaknesses and parker 's creative interference ... 
Sentiment: positive

Review: important film 
Sentiment: positive


Review: deceptively simple ,