Review: indulges in the worst elements of all of them 
Sentiment: negative

Review: ugly ideas 
Sentiment: negative

Review: first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode 
Sentiment: negative


Review: without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange .