Review: yet fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films 
Sentiment: negative

Review: , the film does n't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man 's dying fall . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone 's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america .