Review: until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism 
Sentiment: negative

Review: powerful and astonishingly vivid 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the sum of its pretensions 
Sentiment: negative

Review: is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $ 1.8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart