Hacker News Reader

The part of the review where it says "he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns" could be classified as sarcastic. The reviewer also says "you should watch the movie" if you are curious about the ending, but the overall intent of the review seems to be the opposite.

View on HN

I would call that acerbic. There's none of the reversal in sense I expect to see in sarcasm.

in 2023 the goalposts on agi have moved far enough that we are in the bleachers arguing about whether a model was correct to classify a movie review as sarcastic, when it may have merely been acerbic.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com