Review: 's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist ... studiously inoffensive and completely disposable . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: , the hours is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: its perfunctory conclusion 
Sentiment: negative

Review: as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care 
Sentiment: negative


Review: to a more mythic level