Sentences with phrase «jerker if»

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Because Fault in Our Stars deals with heavier issues, it should leave a stronger impression on people than Boone's first outing as director; if handled well, the film could be a moving tear - jerker - if not, this one could easily feel cloying and / or manipulative.

This is an ill - advised comedy - drama that probably could have worked if Shadyac didn't try so hard to mold this farce into a manipulative tear - jerker.

With arguably the most banal dialogue this side of a Nicholas Sparks movie, If I Stay wastes the considerable talents of Moretz in a calculated tear - jerker aimed squarely at young teenage girls, who definitely deserve better than a movie which makes The Lovely Bones look like a neo-realist classic.

Even if you're too skeptical to accept the movie's claims with the faith of a child, you can still classify this as a comforting tear - jerker.

Conventional wisdom among awards - watchers holds that La La Land, Moonlight, and Manchester are the three toughest competitors this year, with relatively sunny La La Land ahead by a length or two, if only because the other two split the tear - jerker vote.

Quite a tear jerker, but imagine the world we would live in if everyone did a nice thing for someone as a way of continuing something nice having been done for them.

They come in various designs: if you are a fan of the tear - jerker soap opera Coronation Street, there is one for you.