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

Q: for many people , procrastination is n't a problem to overcome , it 's a high art .
we 'll do just about anything to put off a task .
when the deadline for this column nears , it 's the only time during the week dishes get washed and the bed made and laundry done and
plants watered and . . .
eventually , hopefully , sometimes , there 's a breakthrough
and we actually get down to work .
amazingly it 's almost always easier than we dreaded and
after finishing , that sense of oppressive apprehension melts away .
and then , the next time , we do it all again .
english professor grady tripp ( michael douglas ) is a master .
seven years ago , his first book was a hit .
he 's been working on his second -- a short 200-page piece -- since then .
fearful that he ca n't live up to the first , he ca n't bring himself to finish it .
no writer 's block , he 's nearing 3 , 000 pages with no end in sight .
now he 's having a particularly difficult day .
the college 's annual writers conference is bringing in accomplished novelists reminding tripp that other people are finishing _ their _ books .
during the first day , his wife has left him , his married girlfriend informs him
she 's pregnant and his agent is in town with a six - foot transvestite in tow .
by the evening , our besieged writer is driving though the snow - covered streets of pittsburgh with a suicidal student beside him , a stolen jacket that marilyn monroe wore on her wedding day in the back seat and a murdered blind dog stuffed in the trunk .
this could be a pivotal point in his mid - life crisis .
and then there 's the next morning .
there 's a lot to like about this movie .
there are no huge explosions , shattering glass or computer - generated dinosaurs to distract from the very real human issues .
grady is caught up in the curse of people who accomplish great things early in their career .
in the world of " what have you done for me lately ?
" , he knows his second book has to be better than his first . instead of finding out , he drifts , comfortable in the insular cocoon of academic peter panhood .
he does n't have much of a life and neither does his star pupil james leer ( tobey maguire ) .
james may be suicidal and psychotic .
certainly everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie .
he makes up a past of working clash anguish because the truth of wealth and comfort just is n't interesting enough .
as the weekend progresses , they are both forced to fully engage life .
that 's the question they must face : comfort or real experiences ?
the film takes some interesting chances .
non - traditional relationships are presented as matter - of - fact .
extra - marital , gay , interracial , professor - student : here they are n't judged , merely choices .
the actors are all first - rate .
douglas triumphs , playing against type as he spends most of his time disheveled , unshaven and clad in a pink women 's house robe .
maguire 's disengaged alienation works perfectly here .
robert downey jr .
as grady 's agent livens up his scenes .
director curtis hanson (
" l . a . confidential " ) makes a few missteps .
the women are underused .
frances mcdormand does a good job of her limited role of sara , grady 's married lover
but we never understand much of who she is .
the chemistry between the two of them is non - existent which makes some of the ending unconvincing .
katie holmes is a student with a major crush on the professor , but her character goes nowhere .
we never even see grady 's exiting wife .
this is very much a guy 's film .
the varied relationships between the men are much more convincing than any of the others .
grady 's alternating mentoring and rejection of james is the centerpoint of the film , not him and sara .
as the boomers age , expect to see more mid - life crisis films to catch the attention of that demographic .
eventually it 'll probably become cliche , but right now
we 've got a winner .
i 'll finish this in a second .
right now i have to grab some paint .
i noticed some trim in the other room that needs a little touch - up .
( michael redman has written this column for so long that he 's made mid - life crisis a career choice . )

A: P
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Q: note : ordinarily , moviereviews .
org will not give away any critical plot points of a film that could be interpreted as " spoilers . " however , being that music of the heart is based on a true story and that moviereviews .
org feels the film can not be properly credited without such revelations , plot giveaways will appear in the following review .
if this bothers you , please note the 3 star rating of the film and stop reading now .
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what does it take to play carnegie hall ?
practice .
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it takes two hours for music of the heart to " play carnegie hall , " both figuratively and literally .
like the children it portrays , the movie starts from the dark realms of awful cinema and works its way up to a show - stopping performance at the legendary concert hall .
roberta guaspari ( academy award winner meryl streep ) has two kids , a husband who left her and 50 violins she bought from a small shop in the mediterranean .
her life desperately needs a jump start and gets one when she meets a man who introduces her to a job as a music teacher at an east harlem elementary school .
she soon finds her job is on the rocks as the men in her life continue to rotate through revolving doors .
that is the pattern - like plot of this production .
ultimately , the film chooses a zero - sum answer to these problems and finds her music career at an all - time high when the men in her life finally vanish .
the first hour of music of the heart is rather painful .
roberta 's character lacks development and consequently seems to be flat .
also lacking depth is the film 's " bad guy , " a narrow - minded music teacher ( josh pais ) who rejects roberta out of principle ( the movie never explains exactly which principle that is ) and conveniently comes and goes from the plot according to when it might be dramatic to have a villain around .
the next 15 minutes of the film are mediocre .
they are highlighted by one child 's return to roberta 's class ( coming after the great old hollywood scene where he explains be ca n't be around anymore because " my mom said . . . " ) and a glowing concert .
not knowing the running time , you may expect the credits to role at this point .
but they do n't .
instead the film uses the next 45 minutes to finish its journey from bad to mediocre to excellent .
director wes craven , known for his works of horror , uses some old sentimental tricks to get the audience tearing .
one romantic break up scene is highlighted by the classic
" but . . .
last night . . .
" and roberta 's two children also have textbook conflicts with their single mother regarding their father 's absence .
the city of harlem plays a strong role in the movie .
roberta 's mother is initially reluctant to see her daughter move to that part of town and the film does nothing to combat that stereotype .
the noise tracks for these scenes are dominated by sirens ; predictably one of roberta 's students is gunned down and killed off screen .
one thing the film does lack is subtlety .
the fact that a little boy was playing " we shall overcome " on his violin after the aforementioned shooting was a cute and discreet reference .
the fact that the entire orchestra begins to play it over and over soon after is an overdone reference that shows how little credit he gives the audience .
( of course , in horror films the foreshadowing and between - the - line moments are meant to be overdone , so perhaps he too is just learning to play the game . )
even with all its flaws , music of the heart is a beautiful film .
that is not an excuse for the movie 's poor beginning .
but as i watched the scenes in carnegie hall , i thought of some of the great acts that have taken that stage .
in december of 1979 a comedian named andy kaufman put on a show that will forever be remembered as one of the most original in theatre history .
the performance included a dead - on elvis impression , robin williams in disguise and a moment at the end when kaufman announced he would take the whole audience out for milk and cookies .
so , how did this comic genius choose to open the show of his life ?
he had a character named tony clifton take the stage for the sole purpose of irritating and angering the audience .
perhaps it is okay for music of the heart to start off rusty because just as kaufman had santa 's favorite food ,
this movie has an amazing finale .

A: P
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Q: capsule : a short punchy action sequel to the two dinosaur films made by steven spielberg .
joe johnston directs a straightforward story of an excursion back to the island of the dinosaurs .
it lets us see some new dinosaurs ( is that an oxymoron ? ) and gives us a nice and generally reasonably written adventure .
the film is neither ambitious nor pretentious .
i had a good time . ,
low +2 ( -4 to +4 ) here goes my credibility .
this is a film on which i expect to be in a minority .
i liked the third jurassic park film .
i even liked the second jurassic park film .
in a lot of ways jurassic park : the lost world was a creative three - way braiding together of michael crichton 's novel the lost world , arthur conan doyle 's novel the lost world , and the classic silent film version of the doyle .
jp2 was an adventure , as doyle said , " for the boy who 's half man or the man who 's half boy .
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that is what all the jurassic park films are .
expecting them to give the viewer insights into the human condition is like expecting your car to vacuum your house .
the classic adventure films like gunga din or king solomon 's mines had under - written characters also .
jurassic park iii is an all out adventure on an island inhabited by dinosaurs .
the characters are a little more complex than they at first appear to be , and even that is a little more complex than i was expecting .
some of the characters who start out looking stupid and useless prove to be neither as the film proceeds .
that degree of complexity combined with those very realistic looking dinosaur effects is just about as much as i require .
i feel i got my money 's worth
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the story opens with eric ( played by trevor morgan ) and friend parasailing near the forbidden island of isla sorna off costa rica .
this was the research island where the dinosaurs were created for the now defunct jurassic park .
they hope , no doubt , to get a look at the island 's dinosaurs from a safe height .
the height is safe , but driving the boat in the water is not .
the two soon find themselves in trouble and have to ditch their parasail onto the island where they do indeed get a better look at the dinosaurs than they had intended .
flash to the united states and someone is offering to fund paleontologist alan grant (
sam neill ) in his research if he will go and fly over isla sorna and act as a guide .
he has said that no force on earth or heaven could get him back near real dinosaurs .
but again money convinces him to drop what he is doing and go .
doing the convincing is a wealthy and eccentric couple ( william h . macy and tea leoni ) who has been just about everywhere else in the world and wants the adventure of seeing real dinosaurs .
they too plan to see the island from a safe height grant is relieved to learn .
he will fly over this island at a safe altitude just this once .
right .
guess what happens next ?
jp3 probably functions better as a sequel than jp2 .
first it has alan grant and ellie sattler ( laura dern ) back rather than the much less appealing ian malcolm .
sattler has a much smaller part in jp3 , but is still present to tie this story to the first .
curiously each film seems to arrange to have a signature scene with characters holding on to some large metal object that is about to fall some great distance .
one thing that does not quite fit with the earlier films is just as grant discovers that raptors may be able to talk to each other , suddenly they seem to be doing it all the time .
they did not appear to be conversing in the previous films .
of course , these raptors look a little different also , so perhaps they are a different related species .
not only are they more intelligent than in the past films , they are also more sympathetic .
in this story they are not just killing machines , they have reasonable motives for what they do beyond nutrition .
this time around they may be a little too anthropomorphized .
each new film in the series introduces us to some new dinosaurs , of course .
in this film a major threat is from a spinosaurus , not as common or as popularly known as a tyrannosaurus , but larger and presumably more nasty .
it has a crocodile 's head and the body that looks like a dimetrodon walking upright .
perhaps as an economy measure or just to create a mood the visual effects team frequently obscures our view of the dinosaurs .
sometimes they just move too fast to see .
occasionally darkness or fog obscures our vision .
a few times we get unconvincing matte shot , particularly of the laboratory .
but there is less money on the screen in terms of dinosaur effects than in the two previous films .
the musical score by don davis borrows heavily from john williams 's score for the first film .
joe johnston , who directs , already has to his credit two very good films i recommend the rocketeer and october sky .
a team including alexander payne and jim taylor known for election writes the screenplay .
the film they have made is a long way from great cinema , but it still is fun . if you get a thrill from seeing what look very much like live dinosaurs alive today , the film is for you .
i rate it a 7 on the 0 to 10 scale and a low +2 on the -4 to +4 scale .

A:
P
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