Word: maudlinity
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...same hotel as Jessica and Marcus is a quirk in the story that strays close to too convenient to ring true.Suspension of disbelief at his repeated appearances aside, the choice of Barry Manilow as a motif works toward the ongoing theme of Jessica at once decrying and embracing the maudlin. Just as she tries to take herself seriously, she’s brought down humorously.Conveyed directly, irony seems only a result of hyper-focused preoccupation with her own life. When the situations she finds herself in are instead rendered from an objective perspective, it ceases to suggest she?...
...journalism schools the way All the President's Men did in 1976. But perhaps at the least, appreciative audiences will be encouraged to respond to those irritating subscription solicitations before there's nothing left to subscribe to. The Soloist's homage to the fading news business might be maudlin, but in the spirit of the movie's honesty, I confess I'd be about as likely to declare my own mother's funeral too sentimental...
...neither sexual nor paternal. Instead, these two are spiritual partners in life, sharing a mutual obligation to help each other find beauty in loss while overcoming grief.The success of this film rides on the fact that Dörrie guided what could have been an overtly maudlin disaster into an aesthetically stunning and thematically satisfying piece of visual art. But the movie falters when it begins to show signs of the skewed persepctive that so often characterizes the depiction of the fetishized East by a Western gaze. Though there is no denying the symbolic resonance of age-old emblems?...
...abashed, just focused on getting the goods. When he lays out the three declarations of guilt he wants Nixon to make on Watergate, he concludes, "And I think unless you say it, you're gonna be haunted for the rest of your life." His tone is not threatening or maudlin, just the matter-of-fact prediction of someone who, in a conversation with a former U.S. president, is totally in command...
...Breaking Bad” is without any charms. The unique setting of Albuquerque, New Mexico adds regional flavor to the show. I’m also inordinately fond of Walter’s cerebral-palsy afflicted son, Walter, Jr., who’s played without a hint of maudlin sentiment by the excellent RJ Mitte. Anna Gunn does the best she can with the role of Walter’s meddling wife Skyler, but her part needs to be toned down a touch if the character is to be at all sympathetic. In general, this is probably...