Review: able to pull it back on course 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had 
Sentiment: negative

Review: to offend 
Sentiment: negative

Review: contrived , lame screenplay 
Sentiment: negative


Review: combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end