Case: a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixon line .
Classification: gratiolin


Case: an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans .
Classification: characterism


Case: either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks .
Classification: characterism


Case: it's just a little too self-satisfied .
Classification: gratiolin


Case: for all its serious sense of purpose . . . [it] finds a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor .
Classification: characterism


Case: it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed .
Classification: gratiolin
Classify the case below.
perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest .