Review: but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious meara and levy 
Sentiment: positive

Review: as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice 
Sentiment: negative

Review: sheridan seems terrified of the book 's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games .