Review: a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc 
Sentiment: negative

Review: that stretches the running time about 10 minutes 
Sentiment: negative

Review: i have a confession to make : i did n't particularly like e.t. the first time i saw it as a young boy . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations .