Sentences with phrase «of mawkishness»

It's a little reactionary in a kind of «Forrest Gump» - y sort of way — the moral runs that it's better to be decent than brilliant, happy than successful — but the film is well - meaning and the performances from a stellar cast (Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley's accent, Laurence Fishburne, Joan Allen, Laura Linney, William H Macy all show up) mostly walk the right side of mawkishness.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.