Review: the film does n't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers 
Sentiment: negative

Review: tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device 
Sentiment: negative

Review: is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent ... could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: confidently orchestrated 
Sentiment: positive


Review: is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau .