Review: constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it 's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound 
Sentiment: negative

Review: while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: that will thrill you , touch you and make you