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Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: initially gripping , eventually cloying pow drama . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a timid , soggy near miss . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: works better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: this version of h . g . wells' time machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: shunji iwai's all about lily chou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in japan . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster movie . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: thriller directorial debut for traffic scribe gaghan has all the right parts , but the pieces don't quite fit together . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: . . . would be a total loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie's edges . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: though harris is affecting at times , he cannot overcome the sense that pumpkin is a mere plot pawn for two directors with far less endearing disabilities . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: far too clever by half , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: no big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: i don't think this movie loves women at all . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual story . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a negligible british comedy . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: stay away . far away . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a sour taste in your mouth . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you're sure to get more out of the latter experience . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the " gadzooks ! " ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: her film is like a beautiful food entrée that isn't heated properly , so that it ends up a bit cold and relatively flavorless . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: like the world of his film , hartley created a monster but didn't know how to handle it . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: in the end , there isn't much to it . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark card . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: disreputable doings and exquisite trappings are dampened by a lackluster script and substandard performances . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: you could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interesting . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: femme fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience . are we dealing with dreams , visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of clue ? ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe's misunderstanding of marivaux's rhythms , and mira sorvino's limitations as a classical actress . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and humor . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: these guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they're simply not funny performers . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: everything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: o ótimo esforço do diretor acaba sendo frustrado pelo roteiro , que , depois de levar um bom tempo para colocar a trama em andamento , perde-se de vez a partir do instante em que os estranhos acontecimentos são explicados . ### Response:
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Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: director david fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: finally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action tv series . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: one of the most highly-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things , but the barriers finally prove to be too great . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ' ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the script is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better luck next time . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a pretentious mess . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: predictably soulless techno-tripe . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the plot meanders from gripping to plodding and back . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are wasted in it . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: best described as i know what you did last winter . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: [taylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: it's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: lazily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minutes , remains a complete blank . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: writer/director burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky , with mixed results . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do . ' ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the concept is a hoot . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a dud . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: it's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: these characters become wearisome . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a hit- and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: this may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a sterling film - a cross between boys don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . ### Response:
negative