Review: is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? 
Sentiment: negative

Review: can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman 's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002 's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off 
Sentiment: negative

Review: it thankfully goes easy on the reel/real world dichotomy that ( jaglom ) pursued with such enervating determination in venice/venice . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: is undone by a filmmaking methodology that 's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads 
Sentiment: negative


Review: solemn pretension