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

Q: " psycho meets the exorcist with no holds barred " .
a blurb like that sounds like desperate publicity for some low budget , third rate rip - off .
but no , this tacky plug comes from the poster for suspiria , perhaps italian horror director dario argento 's most consistently successful film .
what impresses most in re - watching this surrealistic , supernatural thriller is that argento 's directorial flair and stylish visuals are matched by a near - fully coherent narrative .
screenplays have always been his achilles heel ; confusing subplots , gaping holes , totally illogical incidents and reactions .
no question : argento has always been a better director than a writer .
fortunately , he gets the plotting pretty well right with suspiria , taking his cue from a book by thomas de quincey called " suspiria de profundis " .
the film 's storyline suffers from no major lapses in logic , provided one can accept the premise of a ballet school being a front for a coven of witches .
jessica harper plays an american who travels to germany to further her studies in dance .
arriving at the school late at night in driving rain , she sees a girl leave and run into the storm in a clearly distressed state .
what happens next - and i do n't make the comparison lightly - is a murder sequence that for intensity , shock value and sheer directorial flair ranks alongside alfred hitchcock 's infamous shower scene in psycho .
it 's quite possibly a homage to hitchcock , but with its baroque sets , graphic gore and brilliantly chaotic musical accompaniment by the gothic rock group goblin , this stunning sequence remains very much argento 's own .
though nothing else quite equals the intensity of suspiria 's opening 15 minutes , the film continues to be never anything less than engrossing as harper begins her own investigations and slowly comes to realise this is no ordinary ballet school .
we meet an assortment of slightly sinister characters , most notably the head ballet teacher played by alida valli in another one of those delicious sour - old - matriarch - from - hell roles she does so well .
several more violent murders ensue , including a startling scene in a deserted square where a blind man is . . .
well , i would n't want to spoil things now , would i ?
and the film 's climax , staged amid secret corridors and hidden rooms , has a gothic ghoulishness
that 's most impressive .
the english language versions of most argento movies usually suffer trimming , and not just for the violence - deep red and phenomena , for example , have been appallingly hacked about .
fortunately , the cuts to suspiria ( about 7 minutes in this version ) have not adversely affected the film .
the dubbing of the italian actors into english is quite competently done , too , excepting one appalling and unintentionally hilarious effort with a conversation between harper and a professor about the history of witchcraft in the region .
and the soundtrack ?
it is interesting to imagine what power the film would have lost if it had been scored by someone else .
as it stands , the use of goblin 's music in suspiria is outstanding .
apparently , argento played the soundtrack on location while filming so the actors could hear the music as they acted out their parts .
a stereo video player adds greatly to the viewer 's overall experience .
even better , see suspiria in a cinema , where you 'll get the added bonus of widescreen .
and the colours !
deep reds , eerie blues , a superb use of shadow and contrast .
the cinematography of luciano tovoli , whose more recent credits include reversal of fortune and single white female , is uniformly superb .
a nod also must go to production designer giuseppe bassan for his wonderful baroque interiors .
these kinds of settings are crucial to the atmosphere of argento 's more surreal excursions , the other most notable example being inferno ( 1980 ) on which bassan also worked .
suspiria is the film that broke dario argento into the major league of european directors , and it is fully deserving of its cult status .
the gore is at times a little excessive and overstated - that 's always been one of argento 's shortcomings - but overall
this is a fascinating , compelling example of italian horror .

A: P
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Q: the " fab 4 " of ronald reagan high are four stuck - up girls , played by rose mcgowan , rebecca gayheart , julie benz and charlotte roldan , who overdress like 4 posh spice wannabes .
their daily ritual is to parade up and down the school halls like royalty , and their constant reflex action is to grab their compacts so they can check their make - up and powder their cheeks .
under no circumstances will they ever let themselves be seen eating in public .
in writer and director darren stein 's jawbreaker , it is n't as funny as it sounds .
in fact , it is n't funny at all .
stein has taken the black comedy of a teen movie like heathers and stripped it of any intelligence , wit or charm .
his actresses toss off their lines so fast that they do n't have time to add any emotion .
and all of his female characters have considerably more lipstick than brains .
the setup for the movie has one of the fab 4 , liz , who is referred to as " the princess di of reagan high , " be killed when a prank by the other 3 goes wrong .
the princess di reference is in bad taste , as is much of the movie .
granted , bad taste can sometimes be funny , but the mere presence of bad taste does n't guarantee it .
liz 's girlfriends stick a jawbreaker that is literally larger than a golf ball in her mouth , tape her mouth shut , and stick her bound body in the trunk of a car .
when they open the trunk later , liz is dead .
they eventually put her blue and bruised body into a sexual position and make it look like liz was the victim of a brutal rape .
these realistic and disgusting scenes of a dead , seminude teen have a pornographic feeling that is hard to forget and will likely turn the stomach of many a viewer .
the film 's dialog
not only is n't funny , it 's trite .
one nerdy young girl introduces herself with " my name is fern mayo , as in hold the mayo .
"
when fern discovers what has happened , the fab 3 make her an offer she ca n't refuse -- make - up !
they cake it on her and welcome her to the clan .
the parents in the movie brag about learning parenting skills from watching oprah .
the teachers fare no better , especially in the ridiculous lines they are given .
" miss shayne , please cover your bosom , " one young teacher , who has been made up to look old and ugly , says without any conviction .
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this is a learning institution , not a brothel .
" besides the obvious question of why this movie was ever made , there is one other question that i 'd like to ask the director .
why do you have a phone number start with 555 if you going to cover the rest of the number anyway ?
in a cameo , pam grier plays detective vera cruz , who investigates liz 's murder .
as she interrogates the other people , she stares at them like they are all idiots , proving that she is the only one that gets it .
i am sure that if the hard nosed detective cruz were to see this movie , she 'd walk out after about 5 minutes , and you 'd be well advised to do the same if you should happen to find yourself in a theater showing it .
jawbreaker runs 1 : 27 .
it is rated r for violence , gore , profanity and sex .
i would advise everyone to avoid it , but if teenagers go they should be older and mature .

A: N
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Q: first , i am not a big fan of the x - files tv series .
i have nothing against it particularly , i just do n't happen to watch it .
having said that , i can now say that i liked the x - files pretty well
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for us non - fans , there 's nothing big going for it , but there are a lot of little things .
the movie opens on an ice cave in north texas in 35 , 000 b . c .
two proto - humans enter the cave and find a space alien cocooned inside .
the alien breaks free and kills one man in a struggle while the other is seemingly captured by the bloody ooze from the alien .
the movie jumps to the same cave today where a boy ( lucas black , from sling blade ) is captured by the same black ooze .
we then cut to fbi agents scully and mulder ( gillian anderson and david duchovny ) , who have been pulled off of their previous assignment ( investigations into the paranormal ) and put onto the bomb squad detail .
a caller has threatened a federal building in dallas , texas .
on a hunch , mulder checks out the building across the street , and ,
would n't you know it , he turns out to be right .
the fbi finds the bomb in time to evacuate but not in time to defuse .
five people die in the blast , and when mulder learns who the victims were , a light bulb goes on over his head .
the two agents team up to investigate , against fbi orders , the links mulder has made .
their search leads them back to the north texas cave , all across the country , and even to antarctica as they get closer and closer to " the truth .
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the plot , and " the truth , " are uninspired .
i got the feeling that what i learned was supposed to shock and amaze me .
it did n't .
the possible existence of aliens on earth has been explored so many times before in movies that one could hardly count them .
but the point of the x - files is not what the truth is , but
the extent to which it has been hidden .
it 's a slightly more interesting angle , but it still raises expectations about that " truth " too high .
if this were the whole film , i would say the movie was mediocre , perhaps even boring .
but there are other qualities that make me like this movie
well enough to recommend it .
the pacing of the film was brisk enough to hold my interest . before the audience can get tired of one location , the agents follow a hot tip to another location , and so on and so forth .
the locations are not all computer - generated sets , either .
there are some artificial settings , but the desert night of nevada , the edge of suburbia in texas , and the endless fields of snow in antarctica ( actually somewhere in north america . ) make this fantastic film feel more real .
ward
russell 's cinematography is very good .
the overall look is dark and ominous , appropriate to the intended tone of the film 's plot .
russell is able to make something as innocuous as a cornfield look foreboding .
when the movie is set in darkness , the picture quality is still rich and detailed .
finally , and specifically , there is an incredible shot at night in which the camera crosses the tracks in front of a fast oncoming train .
i do n't know if the shot is faked in any way , but it looks dangerous , and it looks great
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the movie 's soundtrack is also used to convey the dark tone of the film .
( skip to the next paragraph if you have yet to see the movie - there is a spoiler in the following sentences . ) during the opening prehistoric sequence , a howling wind dogs the soundtrack , never giving the characters or the audience an escape from the lonely terrible sound .
in one of the movie 's most effective sequences , metallic doors suddenly slam open to release a cloud of buzzing bees .
the visuals of the scene are good , but what makes it so surprising and frightening is the sound .
there was no question as to who the movie 's stars would be .
even so , duchovny and anderson are an interesting pair of actors and a good combination .
both are easy on the eyes and together , they have some good timing , banter , and energy .
there is a hint of chemistry between them , but it never gets in the way of their professional relationship .
they are like a couple of kids out exploring the empty lot at the end of the street .
there might be some romantic interest , but for now they 're more interested in their environs than they are in each other .
no single element really makes this movie outstanding - not even the sense of paranoia that makes the tv show so popular . but enough things were done right that the x - files is one of the more interesting summer adventures to come along .

A:
P
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