Review: a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity 
Sentiment: positive

Review: you 're convinced that this mean machine was a decent tv outing that just does n't have big screen magic . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: dumb drug jokes and 
Sentiment: negative

Review: a grating , emaciated flick . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it 's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle .