Review: rotten in almost every single facet of production 
Sentiment: negative

Review: be forgiven for realizing that you 've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just die already 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but 
Sentiment: negative

Review: lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks 
Sentiment: positive


Review: by the time it 's done with us ,