Review: plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world 
Sentiment: positive

Review: uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest 
Sentiment: negative

Review: until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage