Sentences with phrase «sentimental stories»

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Their enchanting and sentimental stories still give me goose bumps.

In a year when dry comedy and dark dramas dominated much of the critical discussion, This Is Us did something new: It told real, sentimental stories of humanity, love, parenthood and purpose.

Temecula Valley vintners are adorning their bottles with art that is not only beautiful, sometimes even fun, but often tells a sentimental story.

It's an odd blend - a sentimental story in a futuristic world of brutal machine - maneuvered fights.

Next Act Theatre does a brilliant job of bringing the sentimental story to the stage in a breathtakingly refreshing more

Robert Downey Jr.'s new cinematic vehicle, gives the viewer just enough salt, just enough of the bile of family life, in an attempt to cover the overly manipulative and sentimental story.

Hanks is no Peter Sellers or Alec Guinness - style human chameleon, but he pulls off not only Viktor's thick Slavic accent (it probably helps that his native Krakozhia is entirely fictitious), but also pulls the audience through an improbable situation and keeps us focused on the openly sentimental story.

A sentimental story of a girl whose best friend has just moved away, and her grandmother is dying.

Love it when there is a sentimental story behind a photo / decoration too — just makes it even sweeter!

Not exact matches

At their best, the stories at the heart of the show are not sentimental — or at least not only sentimental or nostalgic.

We certainly have every reason to suspect he had a low regard for the set of third - tier artistic and literary talents that had emerged in 1830s - 1850s Paris, the prototype «bohemians» portrayed in Flaubert's A Sentimental Education and especially the Murger stories that later became adapted into the Puccini opera La Bohème, the set most like our indie - alternative rockers.

The book offers a lively sampling of urban folk stories held together only by a sentimental rejection of all things Irish.

In this way, it stands as a kind of evil twin to Green Linnet Records, which offers a lively sampling of great musical stories held together only by a sentimental affirmation of all things Irish.

Lady Susan, a cynical story about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty; Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.

In any other hands, this story might be too sentimental, but Lowry's treatment is gentle and moving.

As far as sentimental father - son stories set around baseball go, the film is a classic.

Oh well, enough of my sentimental ramblings, let's hear the story of her shoes!

There are times when you want to show your partner how much you care and if you are one of those struggling with ideas on how to go about it, you will do well to follow the ones given below: a) You can read a nice story based on romance and love which will give your partner enough hints and make him or her quite mushy and sentimental.

Whatever sentimental nor was the story of your new online friend, take it with caution.

Critics Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Critic Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Despite the sentimental soundtrack, the declarations of American greatness, and the stories of courage under fire, what mostly comes though is that war is hell, and it takes an awful toll on those who wage it.

Cheesy superficialities plague much of this film, whether it be the comic relief that is frequently flat, or at least dated, or the dramatics which succumb to glaringly unsubtle histrionics, which take ostensibly accurate story elements and corrupt their believability through scripted contrivances, the sting of which goes exacerbated by sentimental directorial atmospherics which range from simply unsubtle to pretty cornball.

The characterization and crisp writing have a biting comic edge, keeping the story from sinking into sentimental mush.

It takes few chances, frequently using sass as a smokescreen, hiding what's unoriginal and cheaply sentimental about this story behind a veil of witticisms about oblivion and «cancer perks.»

It is an extremely emotional story, but you don't tell it in a sentimental way.

With dazzling special effects, some very creepy spider creatures and a great story, this makes Minority Report a welcome change from overly sentimental work that has recently been churned out by Spielberg.

So what the screenwriters and Mark Waters, the director of «Ghosts of Girlfriends Past» and «The Spiderwick Chronicles,» do is turn it into a generic and sentimental dad - lost - his - family - because - he - was - married - to - his - job story, sort of «The Haunted Mansion» or «Imagine That» without Eddie Murphy.

But as a story, «Stealing Beauty» (which Bertolucci wrote with Susan Minot) is a misbegotten, sentimental reunion with old European cinema: Sandrelli, who acted in Bertolucci's «The Conformist,» and Jean Marais, well known for his performance in Jean Cocteau's «Beauty and the Beast,» make idiots of themselves.

In his first film In Bruges, what initially seemed like a fairly standard gangsters - on - the - run story slowly became a lot more, well, sentimental.

While other installments of the show are not as jarring or propulsive as the micro-horror stories, I found myself admiring the show for taking big, sentimental swings around the room.

A grounding in the real - life story makes this film much less sentimental than it looks.

Before Sam Raimi's brightly colored, sentimental Spider - Man, we were still telling the stories of superheroes as if they were classic action heroes, all» roided up and licking blood off their knives.

There is virtually no precedent for this film, with past Christian movies looking to inspire, move, or awaken with sentimental family drama, Biblical stories, and apocalyptic tales of the Rapture.

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

Yet here is an old - fashioned, unapologetically sentimental update of a quintessentially British story that manages to seem by turns traditional and timely.

The remarkably earnest love story that unfolds between Amy and Frank — two strangers whose lives are dictated by an algorithm that tells them who to date, and for how long — is a sweet and charming tale that stands out among Black Mirror's less sentimental counterparts.

It's a lightweight story with stilted dialogue, overacting and a sentimental monologue.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficstory of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficStory (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Rooney Mara has revealed that the secret to getting through the explicit rape scenes she filmed for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was watching the sentimental Pixar sequel Toy Story 3.

And then there are the multiple moments that we don't see — the sloppy ellipses, as I call them — where couples whose stories we largely ignore through most of the film come together at the end in overly sentimental scenes, and we are supposed to care.

A heartfelt story that avoids becoming overly sentimental, the film successfully illustrates the strength of human - canine friendships.

Screenplay: Joan Stanton Hitchcock and David Freeman, after the story «Sentimental Education» by Harold Brodkey.

Essentially a remake of Gaspar Noé's Irreversible, but reversed, Fruitvale Station is an exercise in sentimental histrionics and battering - ram manipulation, with the moral of the story being, you're never too lovable to get whacked.

If the movie emerges as a celebration of its heroine's wits, it is also, ultimately, a defense of her scruples — something it achieves through a deft combination of «Social Network» structural gimmickry and «Steve Jobs» sentimental back story.

It's just a simple, sentimental, and even sweet story of some aging, talented performers who are struggling with the pains and insecurities of old age.

Occasionally a little too sentimental but with powerful performances from Eddie and Alicia, The Danish Girl is a sensitive story of love, friendship, and being true to oneself.

There's Something About Mary (1998) was generally embraced by critics, who gave the brothers credit for having grown up, at least a little bit, when they integrated a sentimental love story into their wild humor.

Some of you may have seen his first two features — the teen - drama / time - travel film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of - age film and a study of the trials of being a single mother.