Review: is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent ... could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: highlighted by kwan 's unique directing style 
Sentiment: positive

Review: expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness 
Sentiment: negative

Review: is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story