In this task, you are given sentences from movie reviews. The task is to classify a sentence as "POS" if the sentiment of the sentence is positive or as "NEG" if the sentiment of the sentence is negative

To paraphrase a line from another Dickens ' novel , Nicholas Nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato .
NEG

... a confusing drudgery .
NEG

Most of the problems with the film do n't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved

NEG