Case: it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out .
Classification: polygastric


Case: even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment
Classification: polygastric


Case: like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated .
Classification: polygastric


Case: 'the château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . '
Classification: cathetometric


Case: . . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank .
Classification: cathetometric


Case: instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , like the st . louis rams in the super bowl , waits until after halftime to get started .
Classification: cathetometric


Case: a glorious mess .
Classification: polygastric


Case: i'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year .
Classification: cathetometric
Considreing the above, classify the following: abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences .