Review: laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany 
Sentiment: negative

Review: ` butterfingered ' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: what madonna does here ca n't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it 's moving and 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the seesawing of the general 's fate in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: that might have required genuine acting from ms. spears