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provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche

positive

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a number of holes

negative

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tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points

negative

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bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy 's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate .
negative