Review: is at once intimate and universal cinema . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt 's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance 
Sentiment: negative


Review: 've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama .