- 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...
-
sepulchral charisma" and that "the original's fine
dance on the edge of
mawkish sentimentality is
disrupted often enough by less-than-stellar acting"....
- 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...
- Such book
reviews achieved for the
novel a "certain
notoriety for
being '
mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'." Such moralistic...
-
bonding that
astutely succeeds where tearjerkers like The
Champ (1979) so
mawkishly failed".
Stanley Kauffmann of The New
Republic wrote, "All the people...
-
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...
- 10
August 2022. "Laal
Singh Chaddha Review:
Forrest Gump,
Minus The
Mawkishness".
Slash Film. 9
August 2022.
Archived from the
original on 10 August...
- mine."
Suhani Singh from
India Today noted that she is the "star in this
mawkish coming-of-age story",
while Stutee Ghosh of The
Quint wrote that "Manisha...
-
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...
