Review: plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely 
Sentiment: negative

Review: paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: until its final minutes this is 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: negative


Review: stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage