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Everything you need to know is established in 15 minutes and when they step back from it to create the gangsters they end up too wooden and sentimental to be believable.
Flags is one of the best war movies I ever saw, maybe even better than Ryan, because it's never sentimental and always honest in its portrayal of the soldiers and war in general.
Realistic rather than sentimental, an unpleasant topic successfully presented with first-rate editing, acting and direction.
The underdog-friendly class consciousness is pervasive and fitfully amusing, although it's schematic and sentimental as well.
Add a really dumb, sentimental ending, and well you get the pic.
I always think its the mark of a good actor to pull off the consistent lurching that is the hallmark of sentimental romcom.
The film has the elements and pace of Chinese opera and so appears slow and sometimes sentimental to the foreign viewer.
Sometimes this type of film can be overly sentimental, but I found this one to be wonderful as it emphasized the importance of taking time to love one another.
The preview description I had read filled with me little confidence that I would enjoy it as I was expecting something quite sentimental.
It is beautiful, touching, but too sentimental at times, which almost ruins it.
The movie manages to be very funny at times, but some scenes do leave a bad taste in your mouth, without being sentimental or pathetic at any time.
I just saw the movie "Dead Doll" and you should too, if you like original script and weird sentimental human reaction!
Since the first time I saw this wonderful film on late-night TV, maybe 30 years ago, it has been my sentimental favorite.
Filmmaker Rich Devaney isn't condescending or sentimental but even the most minor characters in his film are fleshed into real human beings.
Expecting a sentimental and preachy TV movie about the evils of racism, I was given a beautifully acted and subtle movie about how racism can develop and consume people.
However, most of the movie is rather groan inducing and to top it off it gets overly sentimental at times as well.
A very predictable, sentimental movie about a pedantic cop whose strict adherence to the letter of the law results in Bogart turning to crime to support his family during the Depression.
If you love early sentimental Tom Waits, this is his peak.
So imagine a bunch of teenagers : the over dramatic intellectual, the sentimental blonde, the overachieving jock, the curious clown, the feminist and the mustache guy.
Another ridiculous comedy posing as a sentimental valentine to Hicktown, U.S.A., based on a book by Neil B. Shulman.
This film is so intellectual, charming and sentimental.
I expected an over- sentimental, although well-made, movie.
So, if you are a purist, if you cannot accept kitsch for all it is worth and if you want psychological drama instead of bright sets and sentimental love stories, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE.
Unlike the first two films - Leo McCarey's "The Awful Truth" (1937) and Garson Kanin's "My Favorite Wife" (1940) - this wholly sentimental 1941 tearjerker is not remotely a screwball comedy.
Unabashedly sentimental and heart-tugging, it is likely to please fans of tear-jerkers while causing the eyes of pragmatists to roll feverishly.
Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney return as Father Flanagan and Whitey Marsh in this sentimental sequel to the almost equally sentimental original "Boys Town."
It is a sentimental collection of clichés for Manhattan dwellers.
i found the melancholy music somewhat sentimental (like the music in truffaut's films) but a necessary comfort.
The film may have been a little sentimental, but not too much, and it includes Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole which sets the tone for the whole film.
In 1998 two sentimental movie so alike was make one is this and the other is Simon Birch.
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