Review: features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , 
Sentiment: negative

Review: into a warmed over pastiche 
Sentiment: negative

Review: short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience .