Review: told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: p ) 
Sentiment: negative

Review: engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese ` cultural revolution . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: viewers will wish there had been more of the `` queen '' and less of the `` damned . '' 
Sentiment: negative


Review: , like life , is n't much fun without the highs and lows