Review: the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there 's very little hustling on view 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times 
Sentiment: positive

Review: despite being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks 
Sentiment: negative

Review: entertaining on an inferior level 
Sentiment: negative


Review: shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale