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

It was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you could shake a stick at .
POS

Howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they 're often undone by Howard 's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject .
NEG

The rare movie that 's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it 's based .

POS