Review: should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows 
Sentiment: negative

Review: to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom 
Sentiment: negative

Review: standoffish to everyone else 
Sentiment: negative

Review: in its understanding , often funny way , it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: i was beginning to hate it