Review: as it stands i 
Sentiment: positive

Review: director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place 
Sentiment: negative

Review: nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: with pointless extremes 
Sentiment: negative


Review: a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make ` cherish ' a very good ( but not great ) movie .