Sentences with word «schmaltzy»

But then disaster movie warps into schmaltzy romance, an odd misfire that ends up being inadvertently hilarious (especially the wacky, wish fulfilment ending).

It zigs from the high - octane action of the speedways, to maudlin moments with schmaltzy speeches, to whimsical slapstick and an abundance of «ha ha you're old» gags at Lightning's expense.

There's also not a single weak link in the all - star cast (including youngster Dev Patel), and though the film could have easily come across as being too schmaltzy in the hands of another director, John Madden strikes the right balance between comedy and sentimentality.

The script is nothing special, and it even borders on schmaltzy at times, but there's an honesty to the material (especially the father - son relationship) that some people will connect to more than others.

The movie does get a little schmaltzy at times, but it has a lot of heart and I had no problem buying in.

Southside with You, while sweet and overly schmaltzy at times, powerfully reminds viewers that the story the Obamas gave us over the past eight years is one worth holding onto and retelling for future generations.

First, the dramatic elements are well made, with some very good performances (particularly by Luke and a very menacing portrayal of a meddling father by country star, Tim McGraw), but all too often things veer into schmaltzy melodrama.

The main characters could've become one - dimensional and the hardships they face could've easily become schmaltzy enterprises that demand tears from...

As far as the cast goes, Danny Huston makes a great bad - ass, Jeffrey Dean Morgan is in fine form as well, and although Alex Rocco's storyline was a bit schmaltzy for my tastes, he's still Alex Rocco, which means his scenes are worth seeing simply because he's in them.

While the movie could have easily come across as being too schmaltzy in the hands of another director, Madden appears to have struck the right balance between comedy and sentimentality.

In the midst of booths selling everything from schmaltzy Christian greeting cards to tacky Christian pillows to memberships in Christian health resorts to healing handkerchiefs — and even some books — was a small cadre of scholars huddled in a back room with newspaper reporters, trying to discuss serious questions about Jesus.

There will be critics who will say that the show's premise is too corny or schmaltzy for intelligent viewers.

Often written off as overly schmaltzy and sentimental, this remake of the 1943 Spencer Tracy movie «A Guy Named Joe» deserves a lot more credit.

But Ponsoldt has hardly made the downer it would seem to be on paper, avoiding both despair and schmaltzy melodrama for a realistic, down to earth depiction of the pitfalls on the way to making a better life for yourself.

A tug of war between great drama and schmaltzy pap, Lenny Abrahamson's adaptation of Emma Donoghue's novel Room comes perilously close to collapsing into a laughably maudlin film at times.

As a record standing almost entirely on nostalgia, sure, it gives schmaltzy»70s dance music a fine, not - sacrilegious update and sets it to a pleasant neon glow, but it's a trip through history that's almost more educational than immersive.

Our reaction: «A touch schmaltzy in places and the wraparound story distracts, but, for the main part, this is stunning social - realism from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki as a 12 - year - old boy and his one - year - old charge battle to survive on the streets.

In between terribly empty and repetitious scenes, schmaltzy music swells loudly.

The more saccharine impulses of Hollywood overtake the ending, which, while faithful to the book, comes across as a little more schmaltzy on screen.

Critic Consensus: Though featuring a talented cast, August Rush can not overcome the flimsy direction and schmaltzy plot.

Too often movies of its ilk take their subject too seriously, in turn making the story feel schmaltzy, pruned and disingenuous.

The film is very schmaltzy, sappy, and emotionally manipulative, and some of it does work, but a lot of it fell flat for me.

Truth be told, Michael Mayer's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's immortal tragedy is just fine, though a little heavy on the prestige trappings and slightly schmaltzy with the text.

While not as blatantly schmaltzy as last year's «War Horse» previews, the trailer is both very much awards - bait and current - era Spielberg formula.

The main characters could've become one - dimensional and the hardships they face could've easily become schmaltzy enterprises that demand tears from the audience.

The song, a» 90 - style schmaltzy duet, is either funny or forced, depending on your perspective:

This can be horribly schmaltzy (see above, concerning angels) or deeply, powerfully reassuring (in light of Christ's suffering and our future hope), but either way it rarely addresses the also - important why?

In announcing Doyle's death, R. R. Reno notes that he had to «overrule [his] severe fellow editors who feared Brian had edged too close to schmaltzy emotional manipulation.»

Schuller makes no bones about the fact that his church has some rather schmaltzy furnishings — like a number of water fountains that begin spraying when he presses a button in the pulpit — and that their purpose is to impress the unchurched.

You're going to spend most of the day making icebox cake, cranberry hazelnut green bean salad, and schmaltzy mashed potatoes, then allowing your friends and family to shower you with compliments.

This gives a hint of schmaltzy flavor without saturating the latke.

I was very afraid of Diane Lane following the totally schmaltzy «Under The Tuscan Sun», but she really captured Penny Chenery whom we know very casually from our Saratoga summers.

It's a shame, then, that screenwriters Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon have opted to throw in a series of increasingly dramatic interludes, as there's just no denying that such moments come off as entirely needless and flat - out forced (ie unlike certain similarly - themed efforts, the film's more schmaltzy attributes stand out like a sore thumb).

This show has turned into utter bollocks, the first two seasons were very good and paced really well, but this missing baby storyline is a joke, the characters have become overly sentimental and schmaltzy which is difficult to reconcile with the uncompromising action a show of this nature needs.

Mélanie Laurent's sweet but schmaltzy debut establishes her credentials as a capable director, and she does good work with old Inglourious Basterd Menochet, too.

A lusciously filmed, capably acted offering that mildly entertains, despite its need for some judicious editing and its tendencies toward schmaltzy predictability.

Contrived schmaltzy rubbish that purports to tackle race issues, but at best is superficial, at worst offensive in it's exploitative treatment of a serious issue.

At the same time that they spoof the war on terror, both for and against, Team America is also a satire on the films of Jerry Bruckheimer, lifting schmaltzy romance, gung ho fighting, and superficial patriotism straight out of some of the movies he has come to be known for, like Top Gun.

However, it's impressive that while the drama's undeniably sentimental, it's never schmaltzy.

This looks schmaltzy as all hell, and not in a good way but in a pretentious self - important way.

by Walter Chaw Alexander Payne returns to form after the disappointing The Descendants with the muted, often hilarious, and sentimental - without - being - schmaltzy filial road trip Nebraska.

This one, by the late Michael Kamen, is omnipresent and slightly schmaltzy when asked, yet completely forgotten after one viewing.

Despite my utter disgust at how nauseatingly schmaltzy that film was, Winger did an outstanding job making her character believable and interesting when she had every opportunity to resort to histrionics.

[Hero Complex] • On Marvin Hamlisch's «hilariously schmaltzy» score for «The Informant!»

For a few moments during its initial set - up, Melfi's directorial debut, seems on the verge of stumbling into schmaltzy cliché, giving us yet another one of those formulas where a tirelessly inappropriate old man mentors a nubile, naïve young boy in the ways of life.

Katie Baker: When I was pregnant with my now -2-year-old son I had an obsession, bordering on pathological, with reading other people's birth stories — the sometimes schmaltzy, often harrowing essays about doulas and cervixes and emergency surgeries and a practice called «Hypnobirth.»

Part of the reason Scardino's schmaltzy approach doesn't work is that it's at odds with the script itself.