question: Sentence from a movie review: is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon

answer: negative

question: Sentence from a movie review: a failure as straight drama

answer: negative

question: Sentence from a movie review: but it was n't horrible either .

answer: positive

question: Sentence from a movie review: from its recovery of an historical episode that , in the simple telling , proves simultaneously harrowing and uplifting

answer:
positive