Review: it 's painful to watch witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . ' 
Sentiment: negative

Review: schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins 
Sentiment: positive

Review: , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville 's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast ... have made the old boy 's characters more quick-witted than any english lit 
Sentiment: positive


Review: proved too difficult a text to ` lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast