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goodwill of its
people that
neither revels in
irony nor
descends into
mawkishness. A film
based on the book was
directed by Ed Bye and
starred Tony Hawks...
- Look up
hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hokey means corny,
mawkishly sentimental, or
obviously contrived.
Hokey can also
refer to: Hokey, the...
-
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...
- were negative;
Chris Nashawaty of
Entertainment W****ly
dismissed it as "
mawkish and melodramatic" but
credited Winslet for
adding layers to her p****ive...
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sepulchral charisma" and that "the original's fine
dance on the edge of
mawkish sentimentality is
disrupted often enough by less-than-stellar acting"....
-
surrealist filmmaker" and "unashamedly sentimental". She
blamed this
mawkishness on the use of Treves'
memoirs as
source material. The
Elephant Man has...
- Such book
reviews achieved for the
novel a "certain
notoriety for
being '
mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'." Such moralistic...
- all its
contrivances and
occasional lapses into On
Golden Pond-style
mawkishness, this is a
richly crafted yarn that
boasts barnstorming, if very showy...
- all the
girls he's
loved before—and to Streep, who
alchemizes literary mawkishness into
intelligent movie p****ion." The
Bridges of
Madison County tied with...
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bonding that
astutely succeeds where tearjerkers like The
Champ (1979) so
mawkishly failed".
Stanley Kauffmann of The New
Republic wrote, "All the people...
