TASK DEFINITION: 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
PROBLEM: Director Douglas McGrath takes on Nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading .

SOLUTION: NEG

PROBLEM: Not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as Wonder Bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need Hollywood doing to us : It preaches .

SOLUTION: NEG

PROBLEM: But mostly it 's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived .

SOLUTION:
POS