Review: the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , 
Sentiment: negative

Review: huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that does n't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people 
Sentiment: negative

Review: , painful improbability 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the slapstick is labored , 
Sentiment: negative


Review: it challenges , this nervy oddity , like modern art should .