Review: all movie long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you 'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: an imaginative teacher 
Sentiment: positive

Review: were wonderful 
Sentiment: positive


Review: , empathy and pity fogging up the screen ... his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles .