Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The ghost of Kubrick

It's a pretty good measure of the boredom and disengagement that befuddled the last half of Stanley Kubrick's career that he would stoop to filming a ghost story. Having disposed of topics like nuclear war and the fate of the human race in "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001," it must have been well-nigh impossible to come up with a story that satisfied his appetite for big projects. "The Shining" dodges Stephen King's usual imbecilities as long as it can, holding out the hope that the title character is just going mad and isn't being plagued by ghosts. But eventually Kubrick gives in and turns loose the spooks. With or without them the whole thing is way too slow. Kubrick must have sensed how bad it all was: he reportedly lost his temper repeatedly with Shelly Duvall's awful performance, and the kid is terrible, too.