Sentences with phrase «as schmaltz»

Some may confuse what Cianfrance is doing as schmaltz but his exaggerated melodrama is grounded in a very real sense of the human experience.

Not exact matches

I avoid processed fats, like margarine or canola oil, but whole fats from olives, avocados, coconuts, seeds, nuts, and humanely raised animals (butter, lard, suet, schmaltz) are a necessary part of the diet, and lead to feeling full in ways that allow people to cut down on sugar (which is less healthy, as you say).

A bastion of calm across the street from Brooklyn's invariably teeming Trader Joe's, this sunny storefront in Cobble Hill offers schmaltz - fried potato pancakes (also available in vegetarian and gluten free), as well as latkes made with sweet potatoes and celery root.

Working in batches and adding more schmaltz and oil to skillet as needed to maintain 1/8 inches fat, drop large spoonfuls of mixture into pan, pressing gently with the back of a spoon or spatula to flatten slightly.

Mix eggs, matzo meal, schmaltz, club soda, and salt in a medium bowl (mixture will resemble wet sand; it will firm up as it rests).

Fats such as tallow, lard, ghee and schmaltz (chicken fat), along with other animal fats, are steeped in a rich history of providing nourishment in past generations.

What began two films ago as a deliciously snarky reinventing of fairy tales, done with appropriate, and long overdue, swipes at the purveyors of schmaltz has become the very thing it once made sport of.

It's hard to dislike schmaltz as mild as Saint Ralph, but let's try: The film is as bland as a communion wafer, sentimental as a Christmas homily, and predictable as the liturgy.

The film wastes such formidable laugh - getters as Patton Oswalt (virtually his entire role is in the trailer) and Rob Corddry, while ladling on the schmaltz in a climactic sequence with Martin Sheen as Dodge's long - estranged father.

Then the schmaltz content gets higher and higher, as if administered through a drip feed, until by the end we are drowning in sucrose.

They actually look pretty comparable (and, try as I might, I couldn't pick up on the subtle differences between the cuts except for that the preview version ended on a note of unbelievable schmaltz, whereas the final version has a mildly tacked - on coda featuring Guy rejecting a second gentleman caller).

When you see the dead wife's gorilla friend or her dog try to bond with Grace as if they sense her presence, it will probably have you hurling chunks in your popcorn bucket at such nauseating syrupy schmaltz that what should be touching ends up quite laughable.

Then, just as you begin to cheer on this pile of claptrap, Levy ramps up the schmaltz and loses it.

The combination should really make for histrionic schmaltz, but Bouchareb works the same gentle, character - oriented groove as last year's «The Visitor.»

Intended as a showpiece for the then - new technology, the film plays Hemingway's much - loved story very safe; it borders on schmaltz in places, and the voice acting is as wooden as the walls of the old man's cabin.

Personally would have dumped Flight, which had a screenplay that tended to drift toward schmaltz and didn't quite earn its ending, for something exciting that wouldn't win, such as Rian Johnson's Looper script, which would get the Inception treatment (i.e. nerds love that it got nominated and rage when it doesn't win, even though it never had a chance in the first place) from a couple years ago.

Family dramedies are a dime a dozen, and rarely do they ever come off as something impactful or genuinely funny, opting instead for easy schmaltz.

With that said, schmaltz has its fans, as evidenced by a few scattered displays of sincere applause by the general public in attendance at my screening upon the overdue arrival of the end credits.

What begins as a seriocomic approach to marital dissatisfaction in the spirit of Husbands and Wives awkwardly lurches into broad comedy via gags about «massage» parlors and schmaltz that's tonally closer to Crazy, Stupid, Love.

As a result, the «Jerry Maguire» - level emotional catharsis it strives for instead plays as unearned schmaltAs a result, the «Jerry Maguire» - level emotional catharsis it strives for instead plays as unearned schmaltas unearned schmaltz.

But as it racks up good times and bad moments, the film merely ticks all the boxes which align it to the history of teenage screen schmaltz — it never manages to provide anything new.

Say, by reversing the class to which each side belongs, but as a feel - good flick about smart people learning lessons, it rises above the usual schmaltz.

Sadly, her considerable talent is wasted, and unfortunately for all concerned, just as the marriage it portrays, «The Story of Us» comes up as empty as the calories in the schmaltz it so closely resembles.

Bill Murray brought a double dose of schmaltz as he belted out the hits of the day, including the «Star Wars» theme as you'd never heard it before.

It isn't schmaltzed up enough to make a middle - aged driver feel as if he's pretending to be a teen - ager.

But it's also full of humor, and it serves as a nice diversion from all the holiday schmaltz.