Review: uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree 
Sentiment: positive

Review: , irredeemably awful . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the french director has turned out nearly 21/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction 
Sentiment: negative


Review: a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible