Review: once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the film just might turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: masterpiece