Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I agree with the viewer from San Jose

I would award this film one star were it not for the strong performances by Streep and Eastwood. However, there is the inescapable fact that this movie is a syrupy toast to the "wonders" of adultery. Of course adulterous affairs are potentially more romantic than committed relationships: they are generally shorter, more like courtship and less like the sometimes grind of the daily round, and -- most importantly -- novel. Now, I cannot speak from experience on that; and I hope I never will. But finally, as painful as much of this movie is, the book is ten times worse. That man simply cannot write (e.g. "he was a strange stranger"); I am ashamed for us all that it ever topped the bestseller lists. Fortunately, its -- and this film's -- 15 minutes of fame are apparently long since over.