Review: i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman 's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002 's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off 
Sentiment: negative

Review: steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology 
Sentiment: negative

Review: is undone by a filmmaking methodology that 's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads 
Sentiment: negative


Review: solemn pretension