Sentences with phrase «tearjerker like»

You might suppose that he was trying for a hit PC tearjerker like Rain Man or The Eighth Day, but his movie is far too sincere and poetic to make this plausible.

There's no surer sign that awards season has begun than the arrival of a tearjerker like Freeheld.

It echoes back to tearjerkers like «Terms of Endearment,» with honesty and appeal.

Not exact matches

«Til then, she's writes about tearjerker topics like loss and grief for xoJane, The Huffington Post, Modern Loss, Glamour, and on her blog, Sally's Circle.

«Til then, she's writes about tearjerker topics like loss and grief for xoJane, The Huffington Post, Modern Loss, Glamour, and on...

And to a former newspaper reporter, like myself, who came up in the wake of the events it depicts, it's also a nostalgic tearjerker.

Unbroken is based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestseller about Louis «Louie» Zamperini (O'Connell), whose life story, sans the brutal psychology, sounds like an old - fashioned Hollywood tearjerker.

The Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's funny and bruising Sundance sensation is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.

The gist The Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.

The Citizen Kane of teen - cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.

The «Citizen Kane» of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's funny and bruising second movie is like «The Fault in Our Stars» remade for arthouse movie - lovers.

The first trailer features Jake Gyllenhaal like you've never seen him before and from the looks of the trailer, I'm sure this new film from Antoine Fuqua is going to be one heck of a tearjerker.

Take away the controversy and this just seems like a standard animal tearjerker.

CHICAGO — «People Like Us» is an old - fashioned tearjerker with everything that phrase implies.

Even the tearjerker - ready conclusion hammers home the crocodile tears with its overblown closing image: reuniting characters in the foreground of a burning, orange sunset, which feels like the «Gone With the Wind» set.

If it sounds like the kind of beautifully lit period romance that usually arrives in theaters in the fall, well, it is — but look at this way: here's one less tearjerker that your wife or girlfriend will try and drag you to during football season.

Barrymore and Collette often seem like they're fighting with the tacky material, but it's a fight they ultimately win; however many times you roll your eyes at Jess and Milly, you can't help but get caught up in their tearjerker of a story.

On the other hand, its clearly a big, sentimental tearjerker led by the greatest of all the hams, Nicolas Cage, who is backed by the likes of Tom Sizemore, Aaron Eckhart, and Cody Walker, brother of the late Paul Walker.

It all sounds very silly when I put it that way, I know, but A Monster Calls looks like a visually sumptuous treat and a real tearjerker to boot.

Did he have an idea it would play like a tearjerker?

I figure if you like heart - wrenching, tearjerker love stories by people like Nicholas Sparks, you'll love me!

Others, like Libba Bray's «Last Stand at the Cinegor» and Cassandra Clare's «Brand New Attraction,» have a darkly funny twist — and others, like Veronica Roth's «Inertia» and Lev Grossman's «The Map of Tiny Perfect Things,» are tearjerkers.

Sure, AC3 is more akin to a summer Hollywood blockbuster than a powerful indie tearjerker, but it entertains throughout with good historical insight (mostly) and gameplay that makes you feel like a god among men.

I felt like having a good, long therapeutic cry about it yesterday, without having to pay $ 160 to a therapist for the privilege, so I resolved to watch a tearjerker movie to get my tears flowing.