- film
three and a half out of four
stars and wrote, "This
could have been
mawkish—an "eat your vegetables"
movie about an
inspirational figure overcoming...
-
enough to make up for Big Daddy's
jarring shifts between crude humor and
mawkish sentimentality." On
Metacritic the film has a
weighted average score of...
-
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...
- own child". Y
Sunita Chowdhary of The
Hindu opined that the film made a
mawkish take on parenthood. She stated: "Though
Maruthi chose a nice
concept about...
- 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...
-
transition between age and appearances, but even she can't
salvage a
rather mawkish finale to the film". She
received two more
Filmfare nominations for her...
- 2023. Loughrey,
Clarisse (5
October 2023). "The
Great Escaper review:
Mawkish patriotism lets down the
wonderfully paired Michael Caine and
Glenda Jackson"...
- an
average rating of 3.7/10. The website's
critical consensus reads, "A
mawkish melodrama that
means less the more it
tries to say, Life
Itself suggests...
- had written. "Yesterday" has also been
criticised for
being mundane and
mawkish. Bob
Dylan had a
marked dislike for the song,
stating that "If you go into...
- were negative;
Chris Nashawaty of
Entertainment W****ly
dismissed it as "
mawkish and melodramatic" but
credited Winslet for
adding layers to her p****ive...
