Review: ... there is enough originality in ` life ' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: curiously , he waters it down , turning grit and vulnerability into light reading 
Sentiment: negative

Review: in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself 
Sentiment: positive

Review: well-mounted history lesson 
Sentiment: positive


Review: a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium .