This means you can spend an awful lot of time repeatedly losing with lesser characters and there's nothing you can do about it. (segadriven.com)
I hope that readers who are more visually minded will pore over the illustrations, tracing the subplots of lesser characters or speculating about the home in the log and what else might be in there. (booklistonline.com)
The film is a moving and elusive blend of naturalism and melodrama, less a character study than an analysis of a community. (rottentomatoes.com)