Review: 300 years of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: stirring music 
Sentiment: positive

Review: than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades 
Sentiment: positive

Review: absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer 
Sentiment: negative


Review: suffers from all the excesses of the genre