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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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"....
- 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...
-
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...
