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

[EX Q]: steve soderbergh 's " sex , lies , and videotape , " which won the grand prize at the cannes film festival in 1989 , arguably began the resurgence of independent films .
made on a shoestring budget of $ 1 . 2 million , with then relatively unknown actors , it is a provocative , thoroughly original drama .
the film mostly focuses on the four central characters , all in their late 20's - early 30 's .
ann ( andie macdowell ) , an unfulfilled housewife , is married to john ( peter gallagher ) , an insensitive lawyer , who , unbeknownst to her , is having an affair with her younger sister , cynthia ( laura san giacomo ) .
complicating matters even worse is graham ( james spader , who won best actor at cannes ) , john 's old college buddy , who comes to stay at their house .
ann is absolutely won over by him , even though she clearly has stated that she has very little interest in sex .
that is the set - up for the last hour of the picture , and since the film is entitled , " sex , lies , and videotape , " it is best to keep the rest of the story developments at bay so that they will come as a genuine surprise .
director steven soderbergh has proven to be a wildly offbeat filmmaker , ranging from the independent , to the mainstream ( 1998 's " out of sight " ) , to the downright kafkaesque ( 1997 's " schizopolis " ) .
he is the type of director who obviously takes a lot of chances , and believes in the work that he does , and , " sex , lies , and videotape , " is probably his most confident , and maybe even best , to date .
the performances are superb from all four leads , but macdowell stands out in what is probably the main character .
she is always a very winning actress , but this is probably her most three - dimensional role that she has had ( with a close second being altman 's 1993 mosaic , " short cuts " ) .
the other parts are perfectly cast as well , from spader 's ominous graham , to gallagher 's self - involved john , to giacomo 's outspoken cynthia .
the final act of the film , especially , comes right out of left field , and turns out to be both shocking and oddly touching , and it would be criminal to give away the film 's secrets .
suffice to say that , through one powerful sequence , ann is able to somewhat come out of her shell , and john learns a valuable lesson about honesty , as well as deception .
the film has one fault , however .
the characters are almost all emotionally cold and isolated from one another , and often unlikable .
if there had been a few extra scenes with gallagher , it probably would have helped , since his relationship with macdowell is n't quite as explored as i would have liked .
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sex , lies , and videotape , " although minorly flawed , is still easily a brave and adult motion picture that is far more mature and honest about its subject matter than the usual film .
soderbergh clearly knew what he was doing while he was making it , and the final product certainly proves this .
[EX A]: P

[EX Q]: post - chasing amy , a slew of love - triangle movies :
this month we have kissing a fool , co - starring amy 's own lee , and april brings us the object of my affection , which may as well be titled chasing allan , for it is the story of a woman who falls in love with her gay roommate .
( to be absolutely six degrees of kevin bacon about it , that film stars schwimmer 's friend jennifer aniston . ) if only kevin smith could write them all .
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schwimmer stars as womanizing chicago sportscaster max , who falls in love with his best friend jay ( lee ) 's book editor samantha ( avital ) a mere twenty - four hours after meeting her .
they are soon engaged , and max , because of his own raging libido , grows suspicious of samantha 's fidelity .
he convinces jay to flirt with samantha during the development of his book , to " test her " .
the trouble is , jay might be secretly in love with her . to stretch this flat , sitcom premise to feature length , the plot is framed by a climactic wedding , at which bonnie hunt recounts the triangular tale -- the events leading up to the nuptials -- to an annoying fat man and his silly girlfriend .
hunt has the best comic timing of anyone in the film ; schwimmer can spin bad dialogue into mildly humorous dialogue ; and lee , poor lee , is miscast .
so hysterically funny in chasing amy , here he is forced to repress his comic instincts : to swear , to yell , to talk about oral sex .
.. the script 's idea of a character trait is to stress that jay is a " sensitive man
" , and then show him drinking pepto bismol when he 's stewing over his girl trouble .
as for avital , an israeli actress , she is warm and sweet ,
but we do n't know anything about her character
other than that it takes her an incredibly long time to realize the most obvious things .
she also too closely resembles the stunningly beautiful kari wuhrer , who plays schwimmer 's assistant and personal temptress , turning that particular subplot into an unintentional riff on vertigo .
there are a handful , a smattering , of good scenes in kissing a fool .
i enjoyed a moment in a comedy club , during which jay gets up and asks " has anyone here ever hated their girlfriend so much you wanted to kill her ?
" over and over until he 's booted off stage .
there are also a few obviously improvised lines that are fresher than anything that 's on the page .
kissing a fool is never as clever as the thursday night joke - machine friends that spawned schwimmer 's movie career , so save yourself eight dollars and watch three episodes of that series back to back .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: james cmaeron 's breakthrough feature was the first of his films to showcase his obsession with technology and more specfically technology run amok .
for those of you who do not know the plot : in 2029 machines have engineered a nuclear for the expressed purpose of wiping out the human race .
human survivors are systematically hunted down and destroyed .
however , some humans are fighting back led by the heroic john connor .
to stop connor , the machines send a terminator ( arnold schwarzenegger ) back to 1984 to murder connor 's mother , sara ( linda hamilton ) , and thus prevent connor from ever being born .
in response , the humans send a protector , kyle reese , played by michael biehn .
images of machines and of humans ' reliance on machines dominate the film .
even though the characters know that the benign oil drillers of 1984 will become the ruthless hunter killers of 2029 , humans continue to use the machines .
in the climax of star wars , luke relies on the force alone -- his own spiritual power -- to destroy the death star .
in the terminator , however , sara must use another machine -- a giant hydraulic press -- to vanquish her enemy .
cameron seems to be implying that this reliance on technology is inescapable -- and he 's not happy about it .
unabated technological growth brings about the terminator 's other obsession : the apocalypse .
we have plenty of imagery regarding armageddon : thousands of human skulls line the streets of future la .
children watch the flames in a burning television .
when the terminator arrives in 1984 an almost biblical lightning storm precedes him .
even though the " future is not set , " there is no doubt about where the world is headed at the end of the movie : the machines will rise and the humans will have to struggle for their very existence .
all sara can do is await it .
( cameron does n't wimp out like he does in terminator 2 ) the end of the world is the human race 's own fault , too .
after all it is the humans that created in the evil machines in the first place .
back in 1984 , when the cold war was still in full effect , the film must have been seen as a very apt metaphor for nuclear war ( another obsession of cameron 's ) .
these days , one can read a criticism of machine - like behavior in humans .
true , humanizing touches are put into paul winfield 's and lance henriksen 's detective characters , but the terminator is also able to move through the city undetected .
cameron also draw parallels between the mechanical efficiency between the terminator and reese when they first arrive in 1984 la .
from a technical standpoint the terminator is very well done .
arnold schwarzenegger is a perfect antagonist -- unstoppable , merciless , obdurate .
we are not meant to empathize with this ultimate killing machine as we are in some of schwarzenegger 's later works ( eg , commando ) , but fear him .
cameron and hurd 's script basically depicts a one hour and forty - five minute chase , taking a few moments here and there to explain time travel and develop the romantic subplot . while we do see the hackneyed dialogue cameron is now so well known for , there is also considerable suspense especially for the first time viewer who may be unsure of kyle reese 's intentions .
cameron directs the film at a rapid , kinetic pace .
either the camera is moving or something within the frame is moving -- usually both occurs .
the violence is not particularly graphic ( temple of doom 's heart - pull scene outgrosses the terminator 's ) , but it is brutally staged making it that much more effective . for a low budget film , the terminator 's special effects and art direction ( especially in 2029 la ) are remarkably well done .
special mention should be made of the stop motion effects work at the end of the film depicting the terminator endoskeleton .
it is some of the best stop motion i have ever seen .
one thing that does n't hold up after all the years , however , is linda hamilton 's hairdo .
[EX A]:
P