Review: a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: understated performances of ( jack nicholson 's ) career 
Sentiment: negative

Review: with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids 
Sentiment: negative

Review: any hollywood fluff 
Sentiment: negative


Review: stale and clichéd to a fault