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

Seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it 's a sad , sick sight .
NEG

... ( the film ) works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay .
POS

The whole mildly pleasant outing -- the R rating is for brief nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspired performance of Tim Allen .

POS