Sentences with word «hokiness»

... As a result, the film is burdened with hokiness.

The honesty of the performances more than makes up for slight amounts of hokiness in the telling.

Alas, The Wonder Years was set in a middle - class home in a kinder, gentler era, which excused much of the show's hokiness.

The characters in Story's Fantastic Four couldn't have been more broadly drawn but the hokiness of their characterization at least made it easy to tell them apart.

With a structure that suggests four or five equally derivative, predictable scripts spliced together in an accident, the third entry in producer J.J. Abrams» Cloverfield pseudo-franchise is trippily literal about its hokiness and internal confusion.