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

[EX Q]: poster boy for co - dependency needs patching patch adams a film review by michael redman copyright 1999 by michael redman mediocrity is a pox on civilization .
in our heavily consumer oriented society , there is an enormous demand to churn out " stuff .
"
what would happen to our economy if we did n't feel the need to have more things ?
to make us buy more , businesses need to produce a ton of product .
the sheer volume of items necessitates that most of them are of dubious quality .
the film industry is like any other .
in order for studios to survive , they have to make money .
the prevailing attitude is that more films equal more profit .
some movies obviously exist only to put wares on the screen and to do that , less talented people are used .
there are n't enough great directors and actors to create the number of films necessary .
for some reason , it 's never crossed anyone 's mind that the real equation is quality films = more profit .
often , mediocre films are more of a pain for the audience than the horrendous ones .
at you can have a good time making fun of bad movies .
i 'm not suggesting that " patch adams " was tossed out just to rake in the bucks .
my guess is that someone was asleep at the wheel .
it features an accomplished actor and a potentially engrossing story , but it 's as dull as could be . hunter " patch " adams ' ( robin williams ) desire to become a doctor
has an unusual genesis .
checking himself into a mental institute after a suicide attempt , he discovers that he can help the other patients by clowning around .
patch could be a poster boy for co - dependency .
he explains that he likes devoting himself to others because then he does n't focus on his own problems .
he decides that he wants to be a physician , leaves the place and a couple of years
later enrolls in the medical college of virginia .
as a med student , patch 's antics at the school 's hospital catch the attention of his soon to be arch - enemy , straight - laced dean walcott ( bob gunton ) .
the dean is so opposed to the goofiness that he wants patch kicked out of school although he 's one of the top students .
he writes in patch 's academic file that he shows " excessive happiness .
"
i walked into the film knowing little about its history and wondered about its odd mechanical pacing .
there also seemed to be no reason that it is set in the early seventies .
then it struck me .
it must be based on a true story .
the movie is an adaptation of a book by hunter adams who founded the gesundheit institute , a free clinic .
robin williams is an amazing actor . while he is adept at dramatic roles , his forte is over - the - top free spirits .
that 's what makes his failure here so remarkable .
patch is exactly the character he should be best at , yet
even the scene where he and another mental patient are battling fierce imaginary squirrels falls flat .
something holds him back .
most of the rest of the cast is two - dimensional . for a film that champions seeing patients as human beings , it 's curious that the ones here are cardboard characters
.
peter coyote as a man dying of cancer is refreshing because he seems like a real person .
unfortunately he 's in the film for only about two minutes .
the audience is blatantly lead by a ring in its nose from scene to scene .
we 're not left to our own emotional decisions : we 're hit over the head with them . shaved - headed children with cancer , an elderly woman whom patch makes laugh , a beautiful woman who ca n't love because of her abusive history .
when a group of students fix up an old house to use as a clinic in the andy hardy " hey , let 's put on a play !
we can use the barn and my mom can make the curtains !
" mode , they laugh and roll around while painting each other .
there might as well be giant signs flashing : " feel good now ! "
" feel bad now ! "
" patch " is a good title for the film .
it is a patchwork of every manipulative scene you can think of .
the full - of - life student fights stodgy establishment types .
there 's a touching death .
then there 's another .
the film does n't trust us to get it the first time .
the dean tries to kick patch out and later he tries again .
worst of all is the final courtroom bit .
scary - looking old men sit in judgment of a man who only wants to help people .
the room is packed with patch 's supporters .
williams makes a supposedly impassioned speech about the humanity of all .
it has as much emotion as his earlier statement " humans are the only animal that kills members of its own species
" contains truth .
most of the blame must be placed with the director tom shadyac and screenwriter steve oedekerk .
shadyac also directed the first " ace ventura " movie .
oedekerk directed the second one .
need i say more ?
the real adams is to be admired for his devotion to treating patients as people rather than diseases .
the film has a number of worthy messages about the state of the modern medical business with hmos and managed care .
the " doctors are not gods " theme will resonate with a number of people , but it 's so poorly produced that no one will care .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: did claus von bulow try to kill his wife sunny in their newport mansion ?
that is the question reversal of fortune asks you to consider as it opens in a hospital ward , with a comatose sunny von bulow .
she is the main narrator of the film , in a narrative trick that was extraordinarily risky for schroeder .
the dramatic trick works , as sunny von bulow narrates a compelling story of murder , sex , unhappiness , and a lawyer 's moral dilemma
as he takes a case he thinks he can not win .
jeremy irons is claus von bulow , in what is his finest role , and one of the most devastingly evil performances in history .
he is as hated as any man alive , as cold as a cucumber .
his remorse for his wife 's comatose condition is nonexistant , and it is no wonder that even his children have difficulty accepting his version of what happened during christmas , 1980 .
the background to the case is such .
during christmas of 1979 , sunny von bulow fell into a deep coma from which she recovered and awoke .
the same situation occured in 1980 , only sunny never woke , and probably never will .
when examined , it was found that she had 14 times the normal amount of insulin within her blood .
claus von bulow is then accused of attempted murder by his stepson , convicted , and freed on bail .
he immediately hires alan dershowitz , the renowed harvard law professor , to acquit him .
ron silver is magnificent as a moral lawyer who can not stand what has happened to him .
we follow him through two very different cases ; the case of the johnson case , where two innocent kids are standing on death row for a crime they did n't commit , and von bulow , who he still has n't figured out .
dershowitz does n't know what happened to sunny , and he is extremely hesitant to take the case .
nevertheless , he does , based on certain things which happen during the investigative process that deeply upset him .
together with a group of law students , dershowitz concocts a defense and ultimately get the verdict reversed .
silver 's performance is one of a handful of solid roles in this deep film .
schroeder directs on many different levels , with multiple plot lines which blend in wonderfully in the mind of alan dershowitz .
there are flaws ; at times , the film gets overly theatrical .
yet , due to glenn close 's troubled and brutally honest performance as sunny von bulow , the use of her comatose body as a narrator works here fairly well .
the flashbacks are good , but at times schroeder does n't fill in the blanks .
the movie could have benefited with the increased attention of certain developments during the film , and it could have used a better ending .
the film progressed wonderfully before ending suddenly , without any intelligent conclusion .
the supporting characters are often neglected , and dershowitz 's team should have been allowed to grow character wise , but schroeder over - simplifies the story and the characters .
yet , for all these flaws , the film is deeply engrossing because of irons .
as von bulow , he is brutally evil .
anti - semitic , prejudiced , arrogant , protective , he is a rotten , lying monster , whose conviction may have been wrong legally , but morally he was to blame .
irons plays him to a cold perfection , with pathetic attempts to gain moral support for his claims to innocence .
he is an adulterous liar and a cheat who in all likelihood committed the murder .
however , the genius of reversal of fortune comes in its distinction between moral culpability and legal responsibility .
there is no doubt von bulow is responsible for his wife 's death by years of neglect and coldness .
however , legally , did he do the murder ?
schroeder dares the viewer to make up his own mind .
with all the character flaws , reversal of fortune is an engrossing puzzle because it is intelligent ; he wants the viewer to make up his own mind .
schroeder taunts the viewer with contradictory revelations , and then mentions that the answer to this compelling puzzle shall be revealed when we join sunny von bulow , in death .
for all the failed dramatic theatrics , this is one that works beautifully .
we do n't know what happened .
that sense of legal ambiguousness , along with von bulow 's obvious moral guilt , is why reversalf fortune works .
in the end , von bulow is as sadistic as ever .
irons is haunting , and that is why reversal of fortune is so good .
[EX A]: P

[EX Q]: jake kasdan , son of one of the best screenwriters around , breaks into filmmaking by writing and directing this hard - to - categorize detective story : part mystery , part comedy , part character study and part romance .
for the most part , kasdan manages to combine the genres successfully and create a captivating film .
daryl zero ( bill pullman ) is a modern day sherlock holmes .
the parallel is present down to his love of music ( though zero plays the guitar rather than the violin ) , and his addiction to drugs ( amphetamines , rather than morphine ) .
he even titles his cases with such sherlockian epigrams as the case of the mismatched shoelaces , the case about the man who lied about his age , or the case of the hired gun who made way way too many mistakes .
however zero 's observance of the fine art of detachment , though it makes him a brilliant private investigator , makes him somewhat of a self - imposed outcast in society .
he could do nothing without the legwork of his trusty assistant dr .
watson
, i mean steve arlo
( ben stiller ) .
arlo is not happy with his job .
he is thrilled to be around zero 's brilliance , but his bizarre behavior , and strange requests , are frustrating to the former lawyer .
and they 're even more so to his girlfriend , jess ( angela featherstone ) , who is fed up that her boyfriend 's boss means more to arlo than her .
this is the situation when a new case comes knocking .
gregory stark ( ryan o'neill ) hires zero to find his lost keys .
it seems that he kept a safety deposit box key on the ring , and the box apparently contains some incriminating evidence .
now , stark is being blackmailed , and needs to reclaim his key before the nightmare can end .
to solve this case , zero reluctantly crawls out of his shell .
however , this is when he is vulnerable . . .
and this time he falls for charms of a wily paramedic , gloria sullivan ( kim dickens ) , who may be involved in the blackmail scheme .
for the first time , zero has to question his own objectivity , as he finds his client less and less sympathetic .
zero effect is weakest in its obviously " wacky " scenes depicting daryl zero 's odd behavior .
such scenes might be appropriate in an out - and - out satire , making zero an ace ventura - ish character . however ,
there 's a much meatier movie in here . . .
it just takes a while to get out .
that 's not to say that there 's not a place for humor in this film .
in fact , some of the best scenes are ben stiller 's wonderfully underplayed comic moments of absolute disgust and frustration with his employer .
however , the over - the - top scenes never quite gel with the rest of the film , and they are n't funny enough to stand on their own .
once the investigation is underway , however ,
zero 's brilliance really begins to shine .
his lightning quick inferences are as fascinating as many of sherlock 's own .
as the mystery begins to unfold , zero 's deductions lead the plot in interesting directions , but never lose the viewer .
zero effect works well during its romantic scenes as well .
zero 's relationship with gloria is low - key , but it hits all the right notes .
however , we are always kept distant from gloria 's character .
she 's given plenty of development , but we never understand what she is thinking .
perhaps that may be intentional : to place the audience in zero 's zone of detachment .
but , on the whole , it is frustrating .
bill pullman , when he 's not spacing out , creates a vibrant character in daryl zero .
there 's one moment when zero briefly connects to the world which he has managed to detach from for many years ,
and it is shockingly moving . . . expressing a seriousness that heretofore was unassociated with the character , but one which fits in well .
and , although it is sometimes hard to take a detective called " zero " seriously , it is at this moment that the viewer understands the meaning behind the name .
although zero effect is a bit awkward in places , it is a strong debut for kasdan , and shows great promise .
[EX A]:
P