Review: shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but she 's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , 
Sentiment: negative

Review: about their lives , loves and the art 
Sentiment: positive


Review: ... a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it 's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone .