Review: take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film 
Sentiment: positive

Review: overlong 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance 
Sentiment: negative

Review: little more than a particularly slanted , gay s/m fantasy , enervating 
Sentiment: negative


Review: director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place .