Review: for the film 's winning tone 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the absurdity 
Sentiment: negative

Review: piercingly affecting ... while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying 
Sentiment: positive

Review: acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake 
Sentiment: positive


Review: , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life .