Review: a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: in the best irish sense 
Sentiment: positive

Review: i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: ` the country bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation 
Sentiment: negative


Review: 's spiffing up leftovers that are n't so substantial or fresh