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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: the characterizations and dialogue lack depth or complexity , with the ironic exception of scooter . ### 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 film was made by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers . for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . ### 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: narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself . ### 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: somewhere inside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out . ### 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 tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship . ### 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: its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the 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: an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike . ### 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's ultimate point -- that everyone should be themselves -- is trite , but the screenwriter and director michel gondry restate it to the point of ridiculousness . ### 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 glossy knock-off of a b-movie revenge flick . ### 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: . . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape . ### 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 just plain 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: sad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor . ### 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 those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen 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: really dumb but occasionally really funny . ### 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 wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial . ### 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 half-assed 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: the director's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff . ### 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: while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative . ### 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 satire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere . ### 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: they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans . ### 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 mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [woo's] best work . ### 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: reyes' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script ### 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: if you're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . ### 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 darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film noir veil . ### 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 picture's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine . ### 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: never does " lilo & stitch " reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as " mulan " or " tarzan . " ### 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 those so-so films that could have been much better . ### 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: crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid 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: fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent 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: interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult time shaking its blair witch project real-time roots . ### 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: cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . ### 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 more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline . ### 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 appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept . ### 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: less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice belgian waffle . ### 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 not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter . ### 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: abandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed . the only problem is that , by the end , no one in the audience or the film seems to really care . ### 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 such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . ### 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: due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . ### 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: [t]he film is never sure to make a clear point – even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation . ### 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: while it may not add up to the sum of its parts , holofcener's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often . ### 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 overwrought taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship . ### 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: nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release . ### 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 thoroughly awful movie--dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy . . . a weird amalgam of 'the thing' and a geriatric 'scream . ' ### 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: . . . another example of how sandler is losing his touch . ### 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: nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . ### 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 goes on for the 110 minutes of " panic room " is a battle of witlessness between a not-so-bright mother and daughter and an even less capable trio of criminals . ### 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's contrivances are uncomfortably strained . ### 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: guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest . ### 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: schnieder bounces around with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain 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: its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare . ### 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: by the final whistle you're convinced that this mean machine was a decent tv outing that just doesn't have big screen magic . ### 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 say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor . ### 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 film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . ### 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: pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler . ### 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 fine acting , but ultimately a movie with no reason for being . ### 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 to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . ### 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 waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . ### 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 tells its story in a flat manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did . ### 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: sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in history ? ### 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 not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't win any honors . ### 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 for the most part a useless movie , even with a great director at the helm . ### 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 loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the 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: even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan 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: though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract . ### 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: as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludicrous than you'd expect from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . ### 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: sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes . ### 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: where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval . ### 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: more of an intriguing curiosity than a gripping thriller . ### 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 april 2002 instalment of the american war for independence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . ### 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: contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . ### 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: return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market . ### 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: rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along . ### 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 thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . ### 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: on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend 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: the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social ladder . ### 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 incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . ### 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: wimps out by going for that pg-13 rating , so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted . ### 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: trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'what if ? ' scenario that will give most parents pause . . . . then , something terrible happens . ### 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: madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson's nose . ### 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: never having seen the first two films in the series , i can't compare friday after next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days . ### 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 story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . ### 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 depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . ### 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 bad action movie because there's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and 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: [soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness . ### 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: handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . ### 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: so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf bag . ### 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: scooby-doo doesn't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . ### 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: russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features . ### 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: highly uneven and inconsistent . . . margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . ### 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: very stupid and annoying . ### 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 sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . ### 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 listless and desultory affair . ### 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: represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . ### 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: how inept is serving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly . ### 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: jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked . ### 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: wins my vote for 'the 2002 enemy of cinema' award . ### 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: any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years . ### 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: helmer hudlin tries to make a hip comedy , but his dependence on slapstick defeats the possibility of creating a more darkly edged tome . ### 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: lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the year . ### 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: formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market . ### Response:
negative