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: It is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound .

SOLUTION: NEG

PROBLEM: A sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama .

SOLUTION: NEG

PROBLEM: Louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother Hoffman 's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense .

SOLUTION:
NEG