Sentences with word «mawkishness»

The ultimate answer has to do with family, and if Other People starts to slip into mawkishness, it's primarily because the movie doesn't quite earn that final resolution.

There's no place for mawkishness in a film like this; such elements might have worked had the movie claimed to be a realistic portrayal of young adults, but when you have a character as outrageous as Stifler, that's clearly not the case.

... a small - scale movie set in modern Beijing that comes right up to the brink of mawkishness and is saved only by some residual inscrutability in the narrative.

Mostly we get reheated leftovers and with even more mawkishness from the older actors and unfunny schtick from Steve Guttenberg.

Dear John is built on mawkishness and it brings everything it touches down to that level.

Worse than that is when McCarten tries for mawkishness, as in a sequence of Churchill communing with the common man.

But mostly we get reheated leftovers and with even more mawkishness from the older actors and unfunny schtick from Steve Guttenberg.

As a piece of storytelling, well, it manages to pull off its ludicrous plot fairly nicely, mostly avoiding mawkishness and cloyingness.

A writer (Scott Caan) of highly sentimental love stories is secretly a womanizing cynic who has never actually experienced love, until he meets the beautiful and shockingly straightforward critic Mercy (Wendy Glenn), who is not fooled by his phony mawkishness.

But the fragmented storytelling and oozing mawkishness so wildly out of place in a movie about monsters eating people signals the death rattle for the project.

This may sound like a truestory - made - for - TV weepie but a strong cast and accomplished direction from Shineâ $ ™ s Scott Hicks make it big screen - worthy and itâ $ ™ s saved from mawkishness by a lively irreverent streak.

But then this a film that has its cake and eats it, not in crumbs of dry, excessively tactful mawkishness but in heaped forkfuls of brightly frosted melodrama.

The «Sundance Effect» has unfortunately developed a near plague of insufferable, self - conscious mawkishness over the years.

His contribution to the omnibus feature September 11 (2002), in which the collapse of the Twin Towers allows sunlight into the apartment of a lonely widower played by Ernest Borgnine, injects a degree of truly appalling mawkishness into one of the most horrific days in American history.

Tails was fun, and this was before every new game needed another cute forest friend to stain the production with mawkishness.

The film has no dialogue, with a score that lurches towards mawkishness.

During the depression, artists such as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood returned to their Midwestern homes to paint local scenes, and the movement is dogged by Wood's American Gothic (1930), whose countless reproductions damn Regionalism to a Norman Rockwell mawkishness.

The characters in Tales of Zestiria are as one dimensional as you'd expect; the dialogue swings from wackiness to mawkishness in a way only the Japanese seem to manage; the premise is pretty much the same as all other Tales of games, being «gather a group of unlikely friends together and save the world!»

The action remains mostly routine, but the film allows Deadpool's sudden tenderness for Russell to bleed through his smarm without delving into mawkishness.

But the commercial starts, and it never eases up on the mawkishness.

This true - life tale of espionage and international intrigue plays intelligently and suspensefully until Spielberg gives in to mawkishness

It races along at a breakneck pace and occasionally stumbles into mawkishness, but is carried along by Hugh Jackman's total commitment and some appallingly catchy songs.

It's direct and heartfelt but avoids tipping over into mawkishness or message - making.

Green's film is, of course, a story of triumph over adversity, but for the majority of its runtime it tries to sidestep most of the clichés that can creep into the genre, and in general avoids the kind of mawkishness that can derail emotional impact.

Reaching for the «mawkishness» stamp is easy enough for any adult viewer here — too easy, as a defence mechanism against the film's earnest feeling and irreproachable message about choosing to be kind.

while the overt emotionality of an episode such as Vincent and the Doctor (in which the Doctor meets up with Vincent van Gogh to battle a space monster) may tie into the show's larger mythos however veers into mawkishness.

This is a movie that charts previously unexplored regions of mawkishness; a tearjerker that milks your eyeballs with all the subtlety of a farmer trying to fill their morning pail.

The Ben E King theme song and all the imagery of tousled adolescents preening themselves like miniature James Deans rekindle memories of old jeans commercials, but the film is so well - observed and so energetically acted by its young cast that mawkishness is kept at bay.

It jokes (thankfully without mocking, although it's a fine line) and condescends, with a finale that is inevitable in its mawkishness and bad taste.

Instead, clichés are busted at every turn, mawkishness is nowhere to be found, and every detail is so beautifully executed that it all adds up to that most wonderful of rarities: a perfect, perfect film.

Evans keeps the story on track and doesn't slip into mawkishness or bathos.

It's endearing in its mawkishness, and the storybook nature of its narrative is of the same quality you'd find on a child's bedside table, but it isn't a satisfying game to play despite the contrivances it makes in an attempt to fool you into thinking it is.