Word: sentimentale
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I like the balance Forster and screenwriter David Benioff achieve between large historical events and purely personal ones, I like the easy, but never slack, pace of their storytelling, and, above all, I like the way sympathetic portraits do not shade into sentimental ones. This is a confident and honorable...
• Is Juno this year's Little Miss Sunshine? The superficially spiky, deeply sentimental indie film got nominations for Best Comedy and Best Actress (Ellen Page). Since neither Knocked Up nor Waitress was nominated, Juno has to represent all the 2007 comedies about a woman who gets pregnant without wanting...
Reports of Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad fill Adnan and Noora Awadi with envy and nostalgia. The young couple--whose names have been changed, since they fear reprisals if quoted in the media--fled to the Jordanian capital, Amman, in the summer of 2006 and are yearning to go back...
Uh-oh - heartwarming, we mutter to ourselves. But there's something better than that about this kid and Ellen Page's performance in the role. There's something unself-consciously brave about the way she pushes her burgeoning belly through the school cafeteria, something very nice about the way her...
This week, the Wu-Tang Clan found itself playing second fiddle to its best-known artist’s seventh solo album. Ghostface Killah, whose new album, “The Big Doe Rehab,” was slated to be released the same day as the Wu-Tang Clan?...