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They'll steal the best answers from wherever they find them, and they don't let details like party or ideology or sentimentality get in their way.
But when you strip away the sentimentality, what it really does is divides us.
And you begin to get very sentimental; you cultivate sentimentality intensely.
The underscore hit you over the head with sentimentality.
Cramped sentimentality everywhere.
This film is replete with sentimentality, unprofessional flying that makes a pilot like me cringe, and irrelevant material.
The emphasis lies too much on sentimentality, and this badly affects the already limited number of horrific & creepily atmospheric moments.
Everything I hate about films is present: fake sentimentality, extreme corniness, bad child actors and more feature abundantly.
The film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality.
Both films have the characters experience life-changing realizations and both films suffer from a kind of 'love conquers all' sentimentality.
"American Pie"], or warm the audience with the sentimentality of a romantic comedy [i.e.
So full of realistic disillusion and pathos compared to the usual sentimentality and feel-good comedy!
Universal Studios version of "Flipper" (1996) is a great heartwarming film for the entire family with good values and sentimentality.
There's no sentimentality, no patriotic agenda, not even a hopeful message of universal brotherhood in this bleak glimpse of what we can only call hell.
Pixote is directed with barely a shred of sentimentality.
It tells a childhood story with great simplicity and charm; the sentimentality is muted; the evocation of childhood adventures is involving; and Jeffries brings cleverness and style to his production.
Utterly stripped of sentimentality, the film offers a bleak vision of the modern world, and one I believe particularly recognizable to many Europeans.
A harrowing masterpiece on the sheer madness and despair of war, Fires on the Plain (Nobi) is not going to be to everybody's taste: this is a war movie in the truest possible sense of the term, one that resorts neither to flag-waving patriotism nor saccharine sentimentality.
Slackly directed by Dennis Dugan and obnoxious in its attempts to turn on the sentimentality when it's done with the crudity, the movie is made so badly it's quite a bizarre experience.
Zvezda being a Russian war film, I was expecting patriotism, sentimentality, beautiful poetic pictures, a lush score, Slavic cheekbones and cruel Germans.
This movie is traditional bollywood fare as far as the star power, sentimentality and love triangle of emotions.
Seems to flip from over the top slapstick to slushy sentimentality at the drop of a hat, and the worst part of the film is that Martin and Hawn have to "find themselves", who they are, etc. See it at your peril.
This is a movie that deals in nasty, threadbare stereotypes instead of characters, preposterous manipulation instead of coherent plotting, and a hideous cocktail of cloying sentimentality and gratuitous violence instead of thought, wit or feeling.
The movie coasted along at a fast pace and the ending, although predictable, had the charm and sentimentality of so many other popular movies, without being overly pretentious.
The key to this film's success is that Ernst Lubitsch keeps any syrupy sentimentality absent and calls on his actors to give low-key, unfussy performances.
It's a delightful film with a feelgood factor that it achieves without crossing the line into soppy sentimentality.
Basil Deardon has directed a brutally realistic film with an honest attempt to portray the rise of juvenile delinquency in post war England (but without the sentimentality of "Blackboard Jungle").
There is lots of sentimentality.
Several brought up some emotions for me...I admit I am affected by love in cinema...when it is presented in something other than sentimentality.
Had this been the original 1914 version of TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY (also starring Mary Pickford), I probably would have rated it a lot higher, as this sort of extreme melodrama and sentimentality was pretty typical of the teens.
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