Review: odd and 
Sentiment: negative

Review: forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer 
Sentiment: negative

Review: comic possibilities 
Sentiment: positive

Review: one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time 
Sentiment: negative


Review: , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation