Review: savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed 
Sentiment: negative

Review: ... in trying to capture the novel 's deeper intimate resonances , the film has -- ironically - distanced us from the characters . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play 
Sentiment: positive


Review: not well-acted