Review: shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait 
Sentiment: positive

Review: lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures esther , but she 's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , 
Sentiment: negative

Review: acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: ... a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it 's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone .