Review: , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens ' laser guns actually hit something for once ? 
Sentiment: negative

Review: proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing 
Sentiment: negative

Review: 'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee 's character did n't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery 
Sentiment: negative

Review: once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends 
Sentiment: positive


Review: in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo