Review: trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- 
Sentiment: negative

Review: by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy 
Sentiment: negative

Review: that 's shapeless and uninflected 
Sentiment: negative

Review: enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and 
Sentiment: positive


Review: fontaine 's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera ,