Review: are all in the performances , from foreman 's barking-mad taylor to thewlis 's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell 's hard-eyed gangster . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it 's also too stupid to realize that they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times 
Sentiment: negative

Review: unfunny one 
Sentiment: negative

Review: bluster and cliché 
Sentiment: negative


Review: a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions .