Review: intelligence and intensity 
Sentiment: positive

Review: other words , about as bad a film 
Sentiment: negative

Review: under its own meager weight 
Sentiment: negative

Review: 's crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante 's similarly styled gremlins 
Sentiment: negative


Review: is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reel in when we should be playing out .