Review: this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ... that have no bearing on the story 
Sentiment: negative

Review: to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation 
Sentiment: positive

Review: unexpectedly moving 
Sentiment: positive

Review: fallen under the sweet , melancholy spell of this unique director 's previous films 
Sentiment: positive


Review: the movie 's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish .