Review: turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special 
Sentiment: positive

Review: a couple of great actors hamming it up 
Sentiment: positive

Review: there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but 
Sentiment: negative

Review: can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' 
Sentiment: positive


Review: that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy