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

wow !
what a movie .
it 's everything a movie can be : funny , dramatic , interesting , weird , funny , weird and strikingly original .
yep that pretty much describes this movie .
it starts out like a regular movie and ends up being one of the weirdest , funniest most original movies i have ever seen .
it boggles the mind and some have to wonder why we can not get movies like this more often .
besides being one of the best films of the year , being john malkovich may as well be one of the best movies ever .
period .
then again there are so many good movies , that one can not pick an all time favorite .
john cusack plays
a puppeteer craig schwartz a man out of a job , in search of a job .
his wife lotte schwartz who is played by a completely un - noticeable cameron diaz who looks like something off the streets is an animal lover and has about every kind of animal you could think of .
craig finds a job as a file at the 7 ? floor of a business building .
.. you have to pry open the elevator doors open before it reaches floor eight , the 7 ? floor is just a floor between 7 and 8 .
he is hired by his 105 year old boss ( orsen bean ) to be a filer .
in his office , he discovers a little door , to which was boarded up and hidden .
to his curiosity he opens it and starts to crawl toward it , he then gets sucked to the end and ends up in john malkovich 's mind .
fifteen minutes later he is shot out onto the side of the new jersey turnpike .
he returns to tell his co - worker maxine ( catherine keener ) that he has found a portal that will lead him into john malkovich 's mind , she does n't believe him but after she sees it it changes her mind .
lotte also finds out about the portal and discovers that being someone else is good after all .
john malkovich of course has no idea what is going on , and by the end of this bizarre film there are so many twists and turns , that we do n't know what really happened .
john cusack is outstanding and utterly believeable in a role only he himself could play .
he fits the role perfectly and to me was brilliantly cast .
cameron diaz is outstanding and utterly one of the world 's most prettiest women , is made up here unnoticeable and very unattractive .
she however gives a very comic performance and this could easily be her best role to date .
catherine keener is very funny and sexy as maxine and of course the best thing of the movie is the magic himself john malkovich who is very brilliant and this movie plays big time homage
?
to the master himself .
the whole group combined gives us a wonderfully funny movie that is also smart and clever .
spike jonze ( three kings ) makes his fabulous directing debut , and did a fantastic job of directing this new classic film .
he lets the viewer go on the trip as well as let the viewer know they are watching a movie .
by the time the ending rolled around my head was spinning from disbelief of how good this film was .
the screenplay written by charlie kaufman was hilarious and often thought - provoking .
the film also had a soft side to it and even though the ending is very surprising it is also a little sad and heart - warming .
the whole movie was fantastic and had me rolling in the isles . from cameron diaz 's appearence to john malkovich 's explorations i laughed very hard , and it may as well be as funny as as good as it gets ( the funniest ! ) .
there is n't a slow point in the movie , or an overused idea .
there are no cliches except for the fact that this is the most original , inventie , witty , and smart movie i 've seen in a long time .
i found myself amazed by everything : the direction , acting , writing and the whole idea of the movie .
by the end i had to wonder why hollywood does n't want to make movies like this anymore .
or why they do n't .
all filmmakers watch this movie and get some ideas of movies to come out .
this was a surprise hit as was american beauty . ' being john malkovich '
is in the top 5 movies of the year , and in the top 10 best films ever made .
it has something that no other movies playing now has .
in fact it may as well be the best movie out right now .
i highly recommend ' being john malkovich ' and have no doubts you will be disappointed .
P

when i first heard about scream in 1996 , i was told that it was a spoof of horror movies .
from the master of the horror himself , wes craven , it ridiculed the cliches of the genre by overemphasizing them , by making the teenagers do what they know they 're not supposed to do when a serial killer is stalking them ( do n't run up the stairs when you can easily go out the front door , never say " i 'll be right back , " etc . ) .
when i first heard this description , i figured that it was an easy way out of making a bad movie .
how hard is it to make an extremely terrible film but claim it is actually a mockery of other bad movies .
was this wes craven 's remedy from making " real " bad movies such as vampires in brooklyn ?
it just seemed cheap to me .
then i actually saw the movie and the first twenty minutes , involving drew barrymore and a nail - bitingly intense phone conversation , completely changed my attitude .
scream is not only a clever parody of your standard horror flick , it 's also a pretty scary movie .
if you 've seen a million of these kinds of films , you know exactly what is going to happen .
this is part of the fun of watching scream .
the movie reminds avid horror fans how similar and repetitive the genre is and it also reminds them how great a guilty pleasure it can be to watch pointless and predictable violence to innocent , attractive teenagers . to those who rarely see these types of movies , scream is a thrilling unpredictable ride that could be mistaken as a serious slasher film .
there 's nothing wrong with that misjudgment though .
i have witnessed viewers from both sides of the audience , the newbies to horror and the fanatics .
their opinions on the film were so different but
both very positive .
from these varied reviews , i am convinced that scream has not only revived the teen horror movie and the normal teen romance movies but also the hilarious parodies of these and other categories .
films that both deride and celebrate genres like galaxy quest and the big hit would not have existed , in my opinion , if it was not for the outstanding success of scream .
the low - budget 1996 gem may , alongside pulp fiction , be the most influential film of the 1990 's .
this influence may exist to the chagrin of some moviegoers who despise movies like teaching mrs .
tingle or television programs such as dawson 's creek but to others such as myself , we congratulate the movie that has opened new doors for excellent young actors , screenwriters , and directors .
scream is also an extremely funny movie thanks to its quickly - paced script by kevin williamson .
within the film are characters who tell other characters , as well as the audience , the basic rules and cliches of a horror movie .
mainly from the rants of randy ( jamie kennedy ) and stu ( matthew lillard ) , we are reminded not only of the obvious and hilarious rules but also some of the more subtle stereotypes that when thought over are mostly true as well ( the virgin always survives ; have sex and you 're dead meat ) .
not only are we treated these rules on a plate but also the rules are referenced to a number of different films and actors .
the script feels like an obsessive essay from a college film geek who has nothing better to do but find every little blunder from every little film for his own self - satisfaction .
in this case , williamson finds these errors for the audience 's satisfaction and amusement .
i hear there is a new movie coming out called scary movie which is a spoof of scream , which is a spoof of scary movies .
i will certainly see the film
but i have the feeling that this parody will be more obviously ridiculing the genre rather than scream 's perfect subtlety .
however my last gut feeling about this stuff , scream , was dead wrong .
.
. so who knows .
P

there have been merchant - ivory costume dramas with more of a pulse than " the mod squad ,
" a self - consciously " hip " cinematic rendering of the old tv series still looked upon fondly by so many baby - boomers .
well , said " squad " certainly wo n't be a pleasant viewing experience for them or anybody else , maybe even the teen target audience the movie has been geared towards .
a contemporary take on this decidedly ' 70s show does n't exactly seem unwarranted , but one wonders if the mold it accumulated while waiting on the shelf did n't transform into a full - blown case of botulism .
how curious that the film begins by defining both mod and squad , insisting that the latter is a group of people working together and then contradicting this definition by keeping its titular trio apart for a sizeable chunk of the running time .
they are julie , pete and linc , reformed delinquents working undercover for the lapd ( exposition put out of the way so fast that you 're likely to be lost from the opening moments on ) , and they are respectively played by claire danes , giovanni ribisi and omar epps , talented actors each deserving of better than this .
their plight involves standard cop - corruption stuff , as our would - be protagonists catch wind of an internal cover - up after their superior ( reliable dennis farina , one of the best things here and gone so quickly ) gets killed and framed for drug trafficking .
they pout a lot and eventually get cracking to expose this convoluted conspiracy using surveillance tactics that would impress the hardy boys and linda tripp but few others .
when you 're supposed to be asking , " what 's going to happen next ? " , you 'll instead entertain thoughts like " who are these people and why should i care ?
" or " are n't thrillers supposed to contain thrills ?
" not that danes , epps and ribisi do n't give it a shot .
danes can do the troubled teen thing in her sleep , as evidenced by " my so - called life , " but she 's saddled with a mysterious - boyfriend ( josh brolin )
subplot so see - through you begin to seriously question her so - called intelligence
.
ditto for ribisi 's ( " saving private ryan " )
looney loose cannon , though at least he performs with a wild - and - crazy vigor that occasionally demands attention .
but epps - poor epps .
epps ( " higher learning " ) is so short - changed he 's reduced to literally waiting around for a bad guy to chase him .
all this sloppiness can be attributed to the screenwriters , one of whom , scott silver , is also the director .
they must think that if they dress up their stupid story in such spiffy trappings ( the look of the film is really quite impressive ) , it 'll somehow pay off , but this " mod squad " plods anyway .
characters are non - existent ; present are just some good - looking young things modeling cool levis and cooler attitudes .
plot hardly escapes confusing convention .
and the one genre element you 'd think would be show up in generous portions -
a few nifty explosions , some fights , any kind of action whatsoever - only rarely makes it to this dull gabfest .
all those quick to put down last month 's inept but serviceable " my favorite martian " update need to take a step back .
here 's a small - to - big - screen translation that really should 've stayed in its former incarnation , " mod " or not .

N