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Often touted as America’s Sweetheart, Julia Roberts has made some nice, lighthearted films like “Pretty Woman”, “Steel Magnolias”, “Notting Hill”, “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and her Oscar-winning role in “Erin Brokovich”. Since winning the Oscar for Best Actress, Roberts went on a detour to experiment more as an actres...	negative
I'll be the first to admit that I was never a big fan of Dr. Seuss's, Cat In The Hat. My speed was more, In A People House and Green Eggs and Ham. When Ron Howard and Brian Grazer announced that they were moving forward with a Cat In The Hat movie, I wasn't expecting much. After all, The Grinch, also based upon a Dr. S...	negative
Sometimes, the problem with writing a review is just knowing whom you’re writing it for. That’s because your target audience is an important consideration when you’re recording your impressions on any given product. Do they have the same taste as you? Will they at least be able to understand your analysis and critique?...	positive
I just want to be upfront on the following. I still haven't forgiven Tom for what he did to Nicole. To dump your wife through a divorce petition is pretty sleazy. What's even sleazier is to abandon her while she's pregnant with your child and then try to say that the marriage was only enforce for 9 years 11 months so t...	positive
This is the first movie I have given an F to all year. I'm sure there are other F movies, but I try to avoid seeing those. When I read all the bad reviews I was in denial. My 7 year old daughter wanted to see it, so I gave it a shot. I am a Michael Myer fan and although 'The Grinch' was not all that great, I found it w...	negative
Poor Dr. Seuss', he must be rolling in his grave. This movie stank, stunk, stinks... Mike Myers is a twit that obviously was suffering severely from being in that costume. His acting stank, stunk, stinks. This movie is NOT for young children, which is rather disappointing because thats who would have watched the movie ...	negative
Mona Lisa Smile is a deck stacked in Julia Roberts' favor. The movie's premise is that every girl in a certain 1950's women's college is biding her time until she's lucky enough to find a man to provide for her. In like a California breeze sweeps Berkeley graduate Katherine Watson (Roberts), to blow the cobwebs off of ...	negative
As an actor, Will Ferrell shows promise for hilarious movies, thus I am driven to see them. From the previews alone, I have been dying waiting for elf to come out. I found it to be hysterical, as well as touching. My boyfriend doesn't even like Christmas and told me he had goosebumps for the last 20 minutes of the movi...	positive
This review is based on my own opinion as a family man and father of three boys, ages 4, 8 and 11. I consider myself a moderate person that is not overly protective or overly liberal. I believe parents are responsible to find a balance in making our kids aware of reality while at the same time protecting them (and thei...	negative
So much could have been done with this classic story. Instead, the result is major disappointment, a poor attempt to mimic The Grinch (which worked) and other movies of this genre. Myers is a fish out of water, trying hard to liven-up an otherwise dreadful script and story line, and pandering to adults with 'oh-so-curr...	negative
This movie portrays the the children's story 'The Cat in the Hat' in a very colorful and original manner. The children are adorable and the cat is very amusing. I especially enjoyed thing one and thing two, with their over the wall antics. This is a truly original movie, which brings a cartoon to life.	positive
If the title of this review offends you, stop reading right now. Terry Zwigoff's 'Bad Santa' is not for you. But if you have a soft spot in your funny bone for the darker aspects of human nature, if the caustic comedy of directors like Danny DeVito and the Woody Allen of 'Deconstructing Harry' causes you to break out i...	positive
I caught this movie on the comedy channel today, and want to find it on dvd now, for my collection. It's what I'd term the 'stupid-funny' style, much like Mel Brooks would make. If you're one of those people that's easily offended by non 'politically correct' movies, steer clear of this one. If you're capable of laughi...	positive
So relieved Bad Santa had a happy compromising ending. What with the main character, Willie Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) being a cussing, boozing, womanizing, thieving, insulting “Santa” it would be a let down if it didn’t have a happy ending. Picture a man who was abused as a child growing up to be a “fake” Santa in or...	positive
I wish I hadn't seen this movie. I wish that Roger Ebert hadn't given it 3 out of 4 stars and said, this is one of those rare Christmas comedies that has a heart, a brain and a wicked sense of humor, and it charms the socks right off the mantelpiece. Did Roger and I see the same movie? I'm thinking no because I walked ...	negative
The juxtaposition of the words ‘British’ and ‘comedy’ is enough to strike fear into the hearts of even the hardiest cinema-goer. However, ‘Calendar Girls’ proves to be a rather impressive exception to the norm. The film is based on the real-life events from a Yorkshire village a few years ago, although the Director was...	positive
The main problem with ‘The Last Samurai’ is not that the plot is almost exactly the same as both ‘Dances with Wolves’ and ‘Shogun’, but that it assumes you’ve seen both those movies, and can’t seem to decide whether or not it thinks you want to see them again. If you’ve seen both the full ten hours of ‘Shogun’, and the...	positive
Admittedly, I was concerned about this film beforehand. While I think Tom Cruise is one of the best mega-star actors Hollywood has to offer, I was concerned that The Last Samurai could do for him what Braveheart did for Mel Gibson and Gladiator did for Russell Crowe: swell their egos past their abilities. Thankfully, t...	positive
Not since Dan Akroyd donned his own thread bare red and white outfit, in the movie Trading Places, has the world seen such a sad and pathetic Santa Claus as the one played by Billy Bob Thornton in the newly released motion picture Bad Santa. Kris Kringle will never be looked at in the same way again for anyone that see...	positive
I grew up reading Dr. Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Cat in the Hat were some of my favorite books. When Ron Howard directed How the Grinch Stole Christmas back in 2000, I was so excited. It was like seeing a childhood fantasy coming to life with Whoville and everything. That movie w...	negative
The Haunted Mansion was a fun Disney movie. Because Disney produced this film, you wouldn’t expect the film to be scary, but to the contrary, my wife screamed several times and grabbed my arm for protection. I was on my honeymoon in Lake Tahoe when I went to see this movie. My new wife thought it would be fun to see so...	positive
Plot Details: This opinion reveals minor details about the movie''s plot. Let's start at the beginning. I adore Disney's Haunted Mansion in the Orlando theme park. It is for everybody. It is funny/scary, and as Disney caters to CHILDREN, all is as it should be. Things are themed to death, ghosts, and the supernatural i...	positive
OK, I'm not going to lie to you here. I was pretty disappointed with movie in general after watching Bad Boys II on Wednesday night. It was the kind of movie that makes you rethink whether you ever want to see another movie. I quickly ran out to the local theater to catch The Last Samurai, lest I allow Michael Bay to a...	positive
Ok let me get this out of the way: I did NOT like this movie. Borderline hated it. Now if you are only after positive reviews, then you might skip this, but if you are interested in why I thought it sucked, read on. To begin with, I only mildly like Will Ferrell. I don't think hes funny at all on SNL, but I was willing...	negative
Christmas seems to be arriving earlier every year. Halloween and Thanksgiving are now the forgotten holidays as stores and businesses strum up garland and other holiday decorations in order to prepare for the hopefully fruitful shopping season ahead. The movie industry must be thinking the same thing starting this year...	positive
Please note that I do not regularly have my girlfriend shove crutches up my a*s. This refers to an isolated incident of about 3 years ago of joking around with her and a mutual friend where they basically poked at my (clothed) butt with a crutch. They ended up hitting me in the nuts, which, to say the least, was probab...	negative
As the parent of a 5 year old who had just returned from a one week vacation at Walt Disney World, the inescapable fact was that we WERE going to see this movie (unless it was X-rated due to full-frontal nudity, etc.) whether we adults liked it or not. After reading some of the critics reviews on the web, I had resigne...	positive
From Saturday night live to Old School and now to a even better and funnier movie...ELF. Will Farrel plays the role of Buddy which is an unusual elf. An elf that is bigger than usual, has a lower voice that the rest, and is missing the pointy ears. This movie is a very good family movie not just because it's about Chri...	positive
I will not rest until I get the word out this is one of the best movies out for 2003! It is not quite perfect, but is the only film I've seen since X2 that succeeds on almost every level it set out to attain. As I'm not the first review here, everyone should know the story by now. Cruise is a Civil War hero who drowns ...	positive
One of these days I'm going to learn that ghost movies just don't scare me like they used to, and I should stop wasting my time on them in the theatres. I'm not sure if I just got over them, or if it's just because they are all the same. The Ring creeped me out, but lost me towards the end. Gothika was like a bad combi...	negative
Anyone old enough to remember the TV series CIRCLE OF FEAR or NIGHT GALLERY? They were mid-70s show in the vein of Rod Serling's TWILIGHT ZONE but the little episodes were very predictable and formula. Usually, someone was murdered and, usually, their ghost came back for revenge in a number of bizarre fashions. GOTHIKA...	negative
I am a bit familiar with the works of Dr. Seuss. The way his books have hit the big screen constitutes child abuse. Seuss was expert in how to write for children. The people who adapt his work to the big screen seem to have no clue what it's like to be a child. Neither does The Cat (Mike Myers) in the live-action versi...	negative
Premise- Tom Cruise stars as a frontier captain that's down on his life. So he tries to sell new Winchester rifles by shooting at people. He is recruited by the Emperor of Japan to fight against the rebellion of samurais. So Cruise trains the Japanese army, and they move out to battle against the samurais. As predicted...	negative
This was definitely 'one to miss' the first time I saw the trailer. But you know what they say about curiosity and the cat. Mona Lisa Smile is what I guess you might call a 'f*ck tradition' kind of movie. Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) gets a job as an art history teacher at Wellesley College. But her students turn o...	negative
OK, I'll admit it, I went to this movie with pretty low expectations, and they seemed to meet everyone of them. I have been a Dr Seuss fan since I first loved to read. Now I have two kids of my own and when the kids bring me a Dr Seuss book to read at bed time, I have as much fun reading it as they do hearing it. WARNI...	negative
I've got to admit that the first time I saw the trailer for Calendar Girls I wasn't exactly charged with anticipation. The trailer did manage to make the film look fun, but the concept strongly reminded me of The Full Monty, which is a film I personally found a little overrated. If I wanted to add further concerns I co...	positive
Gothika is not a bad movie. The problem is that it's not a really good movie either. Its just another 'thriller/mystery/ghost story' in a long line of nearly identical films. The acting is well done, and the cast is made almost entirely of top-notch actors. Halle Berry, one of the best high-profile actors in Hollywood,...	negative
The movie is overwrought and overdone. The plot is not the book’s. I know that movies are not supposed to be fully like the book but when practically every child (as well as adult) in America has read the Dr. Seuss books, this is unforgivable. The movies don’t need to be fleshed out with over analytical information abo...	negative
Calendar Girls, which has already seen a release in Britain, will be making its way over the Atlantic in time for the holiday season. Luckily, I get these nice invitations from the Philadelphia Film Society to attend sneak previews and premieres, so my wife and I found ourselves treated to a free screening of this film...	positive
The Gothic tradition of violent change enveloped in mystery and steeped in moody atmosphere is re-imagined by Hollywood in 'Gothika'...or so they want you to believe. Halle Berry plays criminal psychologist, Dr. Miranda Grey, whose stable life is turned up-side-down after an accident on a bridge during a dark & stormy ...	negative

SFU Reviews Movies EN Polarity

Dataset Summary

SFU Reviews Movies EN Polarity is a small English-language sentiment analysis dataset composed of movie reviews manually labeled by polarity. Data extracted from: https://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada/SFU_Review_Corpus.html

The dataset is intended for binary text classification, where each review is categorized as either:

positive
negative

It can be used for:

sentiment analysis experiments
educational NLP projects

Dataset Structure

The dataset contains two splits:

train
test

Example

{
  "text": "This film is charming, funny, and emotionally engaging.",
  "label": "positive"
}

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