Review: is also elevated by it -- the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you 're one of the lucky few who sought it out . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode 
Sentiment: negative


Review: without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange .