Review: told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the movie should win the band a few new converts , too 
Sentiment: positive

Review: engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese ` cultural revolution . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: weirdly appealing 
Sentiment: positive


Review: , like life , is n't much fun without the highs and lows