-
financial success, but
mixed reviews, with some
critics judging it to be a
mawkish adaptation. It was also
noted for its soundtrack, and
nominated for several...
- Look up
hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hokey means corny,
mawkishly sentimental, or
obviously contrived.
Hokey can also
refer to: Hokey, the...
- were negative;
Chris Nashawaty of
Entertainment W****ly
dismissed it as "
mawkish and melodramatic" but
credited Winslet for
adding layers to her p****ive...
- very funny. Or very good." Msn.com says "Ricky Gervais'
Derek remains a
mawkish mess.
Where to begin? The
mockumentary format is moribund. The
ethics are...
- Such book
reviews achieved for the
novel a "certain
notoriety for
being '
mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'." Such moralistic...
- her best [...] tone to sell
hokey lines" in a
series it
described as "
mawkish and overwrought". She took on the
leading female role in the
French action...
- aims for a
story that's
poignant and told sparely, but
comes across as
mawkish,
tedious and self-indulgent. S****
brings a
gravitas to her
character that...
- New York
Times called it "A made for-television
biopic that
avoids the
mawkish clichés of the
genre without draining the
narrative of
color and feeling...
- entities' looks,
while negatively mentioning some
somewhat jarring lines and
mawkish ending.
Philipp Engel of Cinemanía
rated the film 3½ out of 5 stars, writing...
-
sepulchral charisma" and that "the original's fine
dance on the edge of
mawkish sentimentality is
disrupted often enough by less-than-stellar acting"....
