In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.

Q: robert altman 's cookie 's fortune is that rare movie that does not depend on sentimentality to be uplifting and to make its viewers feel good .
it is a sunny , delightful , dreamy comedy , filled with lovely performances , skillful direction and topped off with an understated , clever , extraordinary script .
as this is an ensemble piece , it is forced to start of slowly as it introduces us to its characters , all of them residing in a southern town called holly springs .
first we meet willie ( charles s. dutton ) , an honest man with a slight drinking habit .
we then see that willie takes care of an elderly lady nicknamed cookie , who is slowly losing her grip on sanity and is being filled with loneliness , despair , and want of her dead husband .
we cut to camille ( glenn close ) who is obsessively directing a play with her sister cora ( julianne moore ) .
then we briefly get acquainted with emma ( liv tyler ) , an apparent relative of cookie , who is a down - but - not - out teen outcast , still full of love and hope even though she has no real place to live .
we also fleetingly see emma 's lover jason ( chris o'donnell ) , an ambitious but far too excitable young cop .
we are now about one quarter through the two hour picture , and robert altman decides that it is time to set the plot in motion .
we see the ecstatic cookie stare hopefully at a picture of her husband .
she exclaims " here i come ! " and then puts a pillow to her face and shoots herself .
soon after , her niece camille stops by to get a fruit salad bowl , comes upstairs , finds cookie dead and flips out .
convinced that suicide is a disgrace and that she will have none of that in her family , she eats the suicide note and convinces her slightly slow ( yet sweet ) sister that it was a murder .
she makes sure that she stages it like a murder as well ; scattering jewelry all over the floor , breaking a few cabinets , windows and doors , and then throwing the gun out in the back yard .
the only reasonable suspect is willie , who immediately gets taken into custody , and put in a jail cell
( they all know he did n't do it , so the cell stays open and he plays scrabble with the sheriff and the faithful emma ) .
meanwhile , the unperturbed camille continues her none - too - subtle manipulations trying to further cover up for the murder while at the same time making her easter play a success .
so begins cookie 's fortune , a film aptly described by critic scott renshaw as " a southern spin on fargo , " except that this one is far funnier and much more enjoyable than the coen brothers ' darker , somewhat disturbing and slightly overrated escapade .
robert altman 's slight picture is in some ways reminiscent of something like midnight in the garden of good and evil as well , in that both films focus ( on and off ) on the eccentricities of the residents in a southern us town .
indeed , most of the characters in cookie 's fortune are loads of fun to observe , and a portion of them are fascinating and surprisingly multi- dimensional .
glenn close turns in an insubstantial ( in terms of her career ) but magnificent performance
as the conniving camille and is also the source of a good portion of the many laughs that we enjoy in this movie , and she is perfectly cast as the prolific " aunt alexandria " character , endlessly obsessed with family dignity .
the equally essential role of willie is handled with an intangible grace by veteran thespian charles
s. dutton
( mimic , a time to kill ) there is nothing like a movie which leaves you feeling all warm and fuzzy
inside hours , even days after the film ends .
cookie 's fortune is such a movie .
i loved the light , kindhearted approach altman ( whose last project was the dark , intense drama the gingerbread man ) took towards the tricky subject matter .
i enjoyed the talented ensemble cast .
i even liked the trite " in the south everybody is related to everybody " cliche that is inevitably employed by the time this movie draws to a close .
i 'm not sure
why cookie 's fortune had such an all - around pleasing effect on me .
perhaps it 's that good ol' southern charm .

A: P
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Q: actually , i 'm fairly sure the experience of having my flesh torn and mutilated by barbed wire would have been more positive than watching this movie .
" baywatch " babe pamela anderson lee proves once and for all that she should keep her
double - d 's on the small screen .
at least there you do n't have to pay to see her cleavage .
and for those viewers out there who would only lay down money for this movie in hopes of seeing pam topless ,
hate to burst your bubble , but there are no full - fledged nude scenes in barb wire .
you would n't be reading this review right now if i had known that fact going in .
i ca n't go back in time and reverse my mistake , but i can warn other horny teenage boys out there .
they do tease us a few times with scenes where you almost see her topless
but if she is nude , it 's so quick you ca n't even tell for sure whether you 're seeing her andersons or not .
a nipple hallucination sort of thing .
barb wire was adapted from a comic book , interesting because pamela is probably the only woman who looks like a comic book character in real life , even wearing low - cut leather to do office work ( businesswoman bondage wear ) and having unreal body proportions .
yes , like the mona lisa , pamela anderson is a man - made beauty , probably in more senses than one .
she is a definite beauty , though , and looking at her is never an unpleasant experience .
you 'd just think the woman who began her career as a playboy playmate would n't have any reservations about appearing nude in the movie , because it 's obvious
she was n't pulling a sharon stone and trying to make people pay attention to her acting skills .
i mean , she shows off more cleavage here than a jeweler 's convention .
the movie is set in the year 2017 , " the worst year of my life , " pam says .
( " the worst movie of the year , " i say . )
america is going through a second civil war and pamela is a nightclub owner in the only free city in the nation ( silicone valley , i think ) .
she also hires herself out as a bounty hunter when the price is right , posing as first a stripper and later as a prostitute .
but do n't call her " babe .
"
she hates that , and reminds us of that fact way too many times .
imagine , a woman who does a trapeze strip tease in a bar while having a hose sprayed on her being referred to in such a sexist , demeaning term .
a liberated woman like pamela anderson should n't have to hear words like " babe " during a strip tease , especially since that movie about the talking pig was such a success .
the plot ( ha - ha ) revolves around a pair of contact lenses that allow their wearer to pass through the congressional directorate 's retina scanners .
in the words of one of the characters , they 're " more than meets the eye .
" reminds me of the " transformers " cartoon , and i sure wished the movie could somehow be transformed into something decent , but that never happened .
no ,
the movie just continued on its path of lame action scenes starring pamela van - damme , big - busted kickboxer , and her resistance accomplices , ex - boyfriend axel ( tamuera morrison ) and cora ( victoria rowell ) .
thank god they did n't name her cora reef .
one bad character name is more than enough .
pamela originally does n't take sides , giving some speech about she 's only loyal to the money they pay her , but she changes her mind once the congressional bastards kill her blind brother , jack noseworthy of bon jovi " always " video fame .
i still do n't know if barb wire is a step up or step down for noseworthy , but he definitely is nose worthy ( even if he is n't sponge worthy ) .
pam gets ready to avenge his death by grabbing up an armful of semi - automatic weapons and strapping an ammunitions belt to her chest .
it 's not rambo . . .
it 's bimbo !
mark my words , barb wire will be all over the cinemax network in a year .
it 's got all the elements of the direct - to - video releases featured on hbo 's bastard cousin , the cable channel i 'd never watch if it did n't somehow come free .
it 's got the non - titillating scenes of voyeurism , laughable flashbacks , bad dialogue and action cliches out the wazzoo
.
there 's even a narrator at the beginning setting up the movie 's premise while the words scroll up the screen .
someone needs to tell pamela the wookie this ai n't star wars .
if you 've seen any action flick of the past fifteen years , you 'll recognize plenty of lifted elements .
barb wire has the obligatory trucks flipping over , car crashes , explosions , broken glass and slow - motion shots of bodies falling hundreds of feet to their death .
this is one of those automatic - pilot movies anyone could write or direct .
barb wire has only two things going for it . . .
and i think you know what those two things are .

A: N
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Q: some movies ' pre - release buzz is so insistent on their high oscar potential that when they 're finally released , everyone just goes along with it .
thus sometimes , films unworthy of any award sans
the razzie become oscar hopefuls and some even score nominations .
last year it was the thin red line .
this year 's " winner " is the hurricane ,
pure unadulterated tripe
that is all of a sudden being received with critical plaudits and votes in the office oscar pool .
acclaimed director norman jewison 's biopic retreads all the conventions of courtroom movies
without any of the fun .
and that 's supposed to be ok because , see , it 's a true story .
it 's about rubin " hurricane " carter ( denzel washington ) , a legendary african american prizefighted who is unjustly convicted of triple homicide with the help of a ghastly ( racist ! )
detective ( dan hedaya ) who 's had it in for the " big - shot " hurricane ever since he arrested him for stabbing a white man with a knife ( in self - defense but who cares , right ? )
when rubin was only ten .
he is to serve three life sentences with no possibility of parole .
most of the film takes place when he is in his 15th year in prison .
to the rescue -- lesra martin ( vicellous reon shannon ) and his team of wanna - be detectives .
lesra is an african american teenager taken in by three well - off canadian white people ( hanna , unger , schreiber ) to get an education .
lesra and his buddies go to a book sale where lesra picks out his very first book -- " the sixteenth round , " rubin 's autobiography .
immediately thereafter , schreiber 's character tells lesra " sometimes we do n't pick the books we read , they pick us .
" hmmm .
after a few visits to the prison , they become convinced of rubin 's innocence and launch their own full - scale investigation even though two juries have convicted him .
they meticulously go through all the files and revisit all the old witnesses ( i wonder if any of them might be cranky old women who slam the door in their faces ? )
and in the course of their relentlessy tedious sleuthing uncover obvious evidence confirming the hurricane 's innocence that was either ignored or never seeked out during the first two proceedings .
of course , we 're already told that he 's innocent .
a movie like this is especially frustrating because we 're not being shown everything significant that happened to carter during this period in his life .
all too obviously , we 're getting the hollywood watered- down version .
that would be ok except that the parts we are getting is milked for every single drop of melodrama that the filmmakers could possibly squeeze out of it .
it 's almost cruel .
the melodrama is n't of the entertaining kind either ; it 's the hokey , rammed - down - your - throat variety where every emotion is exaggerated to the point of absurdity .
witness the villain ferociously grinding his teeth at the final trial or the constant pseudo - saintliness of our four protagonists .
the hurricane is your basic courtroom movie except
it 's a no - frills courtroom movie .
it 's formula stripped to the bare necessities .
you have your wrongly accused black man .
you have your melodramatic final courtroom scene .
but there 's nothing else .
you 'd expect some sort of involving investigation .
but that 's not necessary since we 're implicitly informed of his innocence .
thus the whole middle portion of the movie is reduced to the protagonist brooding .
brooding to himself .
brooding to other inmates .
brooding to lesra .
brooding to lesra 's canadian friends .
brooding in letters .
i do n't think i 'll ever look at brooding the same way again .
it was n't long before i got tired of hearing the hurricane 's exceedingly deep meditations on his condition .
i wanted something to happen .
as for washington 's performance in the title role -- i figured i 'd have to address it sooner or later considering the amount of attention it 's received -- he is top notch , though
still boring .
how is that possible ?
well , he does what jewison wanted him to do perfectly .
unfortunately what jewison asked him to do is a load of crap .
what a waste of a great performer .
speaking of wastes , why the hell did john hannah agree to do this ?
he 's an extremely talented actor and i love him dearly , but what is he doing here ?
to call his character ( along with schreiber 's and unger 's ) a stick figure would be a gross understatement .
all three of them come off as veritable mother theresas , as benevolent as do - gooders come .
if they 're to play a major part in this movie , why not make them real people , with real feelings and emotions ?
look : if you 're going to make a formula movie , do n't undermine the formula .
courtroom dramas can be fun , but this is ridiculous .
not only is it trite , it 's boring .

A:
N
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