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One of the far-too-prevailing difficulties with this kind of sentimentality, as popularly misinterpreted, is the way it obscuringly over-simplifies the real meaning of forgiveness.
The two romantic leads, Steve McQueen and Aneta Corsaut, bring surprising depth and sentimentality to the proceedings.
It eschews the soft wistfulness of "All That Heaven Allows" and the weepy sentimentality of "Imitation of Life" and instead goes for feverish angst and overheated tension.
It's a beautiful story without sentimentality or guilt associated with it, and the conclusion provides hope without leaving people feeling alienated.
Ridiculous melodrama and overblown sentimentality is the only thing Sidney Lumet has to offer.
There's no sentimentality in this film whatsoever.
What makes it an exception is: no overdoing morality, no sentimentality beyond realism, GOOD ACTORS (all of them newcomers, so nepotism didn't do it as in many other German movies), an original story.
I am talking about an unnecessary, distracting, obligatory and unconvincing sentimentality to the whole thing.
Billy Crystal has copied all of the worst features of movies, such as "A League of Their Own," that let sentimentality overwhelm what might have been an interesting story in someone else's hands.
The schmaltzy sentimentality accumulates and creeps up on you, until towards the end you feel overdosed on insincerity to the point of nausea.
Where other people would have gone for fake sentimentality and/or gruesome imagery; Lynch just presents the story how it is.
Where some directors would have piled the sentimentality on, David Lynch is economic; that's all it needs, so that's all it gets.
All that notwithstanding, this sad sequel forgets the honest and genuine drama that was at the heart of the original film and replaces it with dopey, juvenile humor and an egregious attempt at sentimentality.
The mawkish sentimentality that ensues is unbearable.
Unlike John Ford's celebrated cavalry Westerns, there's no humor or sentimentality in this film.
The moment we hear of a movie about a boy and a dog, we expect a surfeit of sentimentality, a la "Old Yeller".
This film is maybe relying on more sentimentality than the former, as in this one the issue of leaving home and belonging to an master/owner (and the attachment), and the comedy isn't as rampant as in other Peanuts specials.
The race that ensues is the necessary conflict that precedes the shocking -- and of an unbridled cynicism -- ending that carries to the last consequences the truism that sentimentality has no place in a technological capitalist society -- Porky wins the race but is not allowed to keep his train; instead he is promoted to machinist of the new one, and is soon bursting with joy.
Of course, while this is consistently amusing and funny, what we're mostly left with toward the end are the platitudes of mawkish sentimentality, of "rekindling the love we lost" that seem to always hobble the comedy of even the most outrageous of premises, as if the premise has been exhausted enough and becomes more of an "endearing love story" than a convivial comedy... Why is that?
A holiday Romance tries to overwhelm us with sentimentality.
It avoided sentimentality and slap-stick comedy.
Vidor mixes sentimentality and excitement a little ham-handedly, as when Colleen Moore regains the use of her legs so she can drag the unconscious John Bowers from the burning church.
He starts off as a bad boy, but of course his tough exterior melts away to reveal his inner sentimentality when he meets a widow and her two children, one of which is played by one of those hideous Culkins.
The director avoids all sentimentality, yet the movie has moments of humor, pathos, cynicism, charity and quiet desperation.
Set in 80s New York, Silver has lensed an astonishingly authentic view of childhood, surprisingly devoid of sentimentality.
It's a cliche-ridden crime story with supposedly cool dialogues and sudden lapses into sentimentality.
This is one of the great war films, not because it shows some epic event such as "Pearl Harbor" or aspires to maudlin sentimentality and false realism like "Saving Private Ryan," but because it shows the ordinary plight of common people who happen here to be soldiers.
This film manifests all that is degenerate about the "coming of age" genre: saccharine sentimentality, numbing cliché, jarringly unsubtle plot devices.
Clever plot full of modernist irony, beautiful scenery of France and Spain, and multicultural sentimentality only residents of the wealthier Parisian arrondissements could love.
Carefully directed, it never crosses the line into outright sentimentality although it does come dangerously close.
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