Review: goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes 
Sentiment: negative

Review: blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: if festival in cannes nails hard - boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals 
Sentiment: negative


Review: this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question ` why ?