Review: pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics 
Sentiment: negative

Review: to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the little chinese seamstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem 
Sentiment: positive

Review: with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama 
Sentiment: positive


Review: whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude