Review: of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie 
Sentiment: positive

Review: itself is small and shriveled 
Sentiment: negative

Review: improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end 
Sentiment: positive


Review: thin -- then out -- when there 's nothing else happening