And it's always a good time for a schmaltzy romance.
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Everyone wants Dennis Graham to win, schmaltzy as he is.
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DMITRY MALIKOV, a wavy-haired crooner, normally sings schmaltzy love tunes.
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Nicholas Sparks churns out schmaltzy sob-fests like it's his job.
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Jacob had found the movie schmaltzy and overblown, flirting with kitsch.
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Don't worry—these aren't schmaltzy Instagram quotes or multi-level marketing platitudes.
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As an early '90s Oscar play, Awakenings is perfectly fine, if schmaltzy.
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"Schmaltzy as it sounds, it was love at first sight," he said.
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It was schmaltzy brilliance, and it did the trick — I cried each episode.
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The '90s were not the schmaltzy, safe, escapist climate we think they were.
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It would be a "Girl meets content" fairytale, complete with schmaltzy live tweets.
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The schmaltzy baton has been passed and Netflix is clearly up for the challenge.
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Surprisingly, "Awesome," his extremely schmaltzy ode to Kim, is not on the playlist. —Noisey
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Mimi Sheraton will also participate: "Schmaltzy," Jewish Food Society, Monday, 7 to 9 p.m.
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It's uplifting — literally, sometimes characters lift each other up — but not schmaltzy or trite.
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Sure, it's a bit schmaltzy, but isn't that what the holidays are all about?
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With Turkey Day in the books, attention shifts to Christmas and all its schmaltzy films.
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Or something simpler, a screenshot of a Stevie Nicks lyric or a schmaltzy Instagram poem?
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It was, for the most part, a schmaltzy, meandering recollection of the couple's early years together.
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Sloane loves Fifty Shades of Grey, its schmaltzy BDSM scenes inspiring her to act them out.
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This will sound schmaltzy, but there's a kind of tenderness and love in what he's done.
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Schmaltzy semi-soaps can't be possibly be placed in the same category as a ground-breaking film.
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Marshall, who died Tuesday, earned few fans among critics who looked down on his schmaltzy, feel-good stories.
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Nolan knows how to cap a couple of hours of thoroughgoing grimness with a dollop of schmaltzy redemption.
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The album's final single was "The One I Gave My Heart To," an unabashedly schmaltzy Diane Warren ballad.
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Until then, there had only been schmaltzy carols and easy listening staples, with occasional hints of a party tune.
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It's a great, schmaltzy line — a celebration of youth and the possibility of reinvention and, not least, New York.
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The two solos stood out most, showing the dancers as individuals unencumbered by the schmaltzy potential of looming romance.
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While critics have called his act schmaltzy, Mr. Rieu wrote in an email interview that he was not bothered.
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Not surprisingly, he seems to be every bit as schmaltzy after the final rose as he seemed in the show.
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It's been a while since moviemakers picked up the schmaltzy baton, but Netflix appears to be up to the challenge.
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She cherry-picks parts of schmaltzy films to focus on, and edits out the parts that hurt and mock her.
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" He also called the contest's namesake poet "one of the most old-fashioned, schmaltzy and pious poets who ever lived.
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The word "daddy," central to her schmaltzy hit "I've Written a Letter to Daddy," becomes curdled cream in her mouth.
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This is evident from its opening cutscene, which takes a clichéd but chuckle-worthy swing at Titanic's schmaltzy bow embrace.
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Ironically, Neil Diamond has become kind of a cool cultural figure now, but at the time, he was pretty schmaltzy.
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"One Shining Moment" — the ballad that plays over a tournament-capping video montage following each championship game — is schmaltzy but irresistible.
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There's also a little local show called "America's Got Talent" that has some very schmaltzy stuff on it, like Simon Cowell.
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Schmaltzy music fills the room, while apparatuses chart the anatomy of a woman's orgasm and rate the level of her desire.
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It had a little bit of You Can't Do That on Television, and a little bit of the schmaltzy sentimentality of Degrassi.
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Gifted, a return to modest-budget Hallmark-shop sentimentality for the filmmaker, is a custody battle melodrama that's as schmaltzy as all get out.
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But it's a testament to DuVernay's skill in directing that the sincerity that's so central to the book never feels schmaltzy in the movie.
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It was neither as schmaltzy as Mr Martin's earlier work with the Backstreet Boys, nor as vigorous as his later hits with Kelly Clarkson.
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I want the schmaltzy romance that's been rammed down my throat by movies, TV, and books since I was old enough to process information.
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It was reasonably successful at the box office, but it's also exactly the kind of formulaic, schmaltzy buddy comedy that flies right past awards season.
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Critics felt that the plot of "Sweet November" was overwhelmingly schmaltzy, and it didn't help that Theron and Reeves seemed to be a mismatched pair.
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Or maybe it's the use of the schmaltzy anthem "She's So High," a relic of an era when depictions of these marital dynamics were widespread?
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That first Hollywood hero who saves the world in a movie with a schmaltzy tear-jerker close, or a Disney cartoon, coloring book or jigsaw puzzle.
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The OG royals can brag that they survived the release of two schmaltzy movies devoted to Prince William and the now-Duchess of Cambridge's love story.
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I keep seeing reactions that treat "A Star Is Born" that way, or that dismiss it as "schmaltzy," and I have to confess that I'm surprised.
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"I love the schmaltzy drama of the building," she said of Wallace K. Harrison's design, picturing straight away a crowd scene set within a swirling space.
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I keep seeing reactions that treat 'A Star Is Born' that way, or that dismiss it as 'schmaltzy,' and I have to confess that I'm surprised.
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His images of dancers making their grandes arabesques or bending at the barre, now schmaltzy stalwarts of dorm-room posters, were the projects of true mania.
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The Hallmark Channel, producer of all your favorite schmaltzy Christmas movies, is facing a stiff online backlash after pulling multiple ads featuring same-sex couples kissing.
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But for those looking for a deeply schmaltzy, tangy, wildly comforting, crazy-tender one-pot chicken in an hour, then you are absolutely in the right place.
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If Austria is best-known for schmaltzy sentimentalism and a refusal to acknowledge its Nazi heritage, the capital city of Vienna is celebrated for its Habsburg-era decadence.
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The writing was already on the wall before Rhimes announced her exit: NBC's schmaltzy This Is Us is the only network drama nominated for an Emmy Award this year.
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I promise you extremely tender meat and an abundance of leftover schmaltzy liquid in the baking dish, a concoction so good you might swear off plain olive oil forever.
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That scenes comes nearly two-thirds into an otherwise drab, uninvolving film that overdoses on schmaltzy melodrama, yet comes up well short of any tension, let alone pleasant amusement.
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"Country Boy" was Campbell's fifth straight number one hit on the Easy Listening chart, but its schmaltzy veneer masks one of Campbell's deepest declarations of anxious introspection and self-doubt.
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Long ago, Hollywood gave us Philadelphia (1993), a schmaltzy juggernaut which implied that being black without AIDS and living with AIDS as a white man were basically the same experience.
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"Awesome," Kanye's open-hearted and extremely schmaltzy ode to Kim, is not on this playlist, and neither is the much better "White Dress" from the Man with the Iron Fists soundtrack.
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From the Oceanaires of California to the Weehawken Wonder Boys of New Jersey, groups swirl their voices together in an unabashedly schmaltzy singing style that dates back to the 193th century.
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Now you've got to decorate it, because, for me, I'm super schmaltzy and a lot of my friends are creative people so they'll give me stickers on it and they'll sign it.
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Macho directors — almost always white men — stride onto a stage and introduce footage of sparring superheroes, and then trot out cast members (again, mostly white) for some schmaltzy chitchat about loving their characters.
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In fact, he remembered to ASCAP in 2014 that he initially disliked the song, with its schmaltzy chords and vocal melody that recalled "a practice interval" used by singers and musicians to warm up.
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The series — about to release its fifth season —follows the trials and tribulations of the titular character, a fifty-something pill-popping, bottle-hitting actor whose heydey was the schmaltzy '90s sitcom Horsin' Around.
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And we went into an area that Mariah didn't really go into — in her words, it was a little bit too schmaltzy or too pop ballady or too old-fashioned as far as melody and lyrics.
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The warm, natural reverb sounded vastly different from the muggy clubs of Rio, and eventually, he realized that he could still project his voice without all the schmaltzy vibrato used by other vocalists of the era.
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Jack Black's proggy opener, "Oh Hanukkah," is by turns creepy, sexy, boozy, schmaltzy, clever, slimy, catchy, and sinful—at once an introduction to the rituals of Chanukah and a bombastic reframing of a classic Jewish tune.
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Based on Jonathan Evison's enjoyable novel about a first-time caregiver to those with disabilities, this Netflix original with a cast headed up by Paul Rudd could prove to be hugely charming, or it could be unbearably schmaltzy.
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Other music fans had turned to the grittier and less aspirational tunes provided by alternative-rock bands such as R.E.M.. Yacht rock came to be dismissed as schmaltzy and uncool, consigned to wedding parties and dusty record collections.
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TC Crew - "I Can't Do It Alone (LP Mix)" Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's obvious, but piss off, it's Valentines Day and if you can't be obvious and soppy and schmaltzy on Valentine's Day, when can you?
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His models wore giant straw hats and, leg-of-mutton sleeves, and came down the runway to the schmaltzy orchestral theme from "Jean de Florette," the Gérard Depardieu period piece from the 1980s — French cheese at its ripest.
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Greater than the sum of its parts, its success hinges on three very simple components: chicken broth (golden brown, deeply savory, lightly seasoned), matzo balls (tender, eggy, schmaltzy dumplings) and garnish (celery and fresh dill, lots of it).
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But hey, credit to Mars and the Grammys production crew for the choice to do just one song — clearly they'd learned their lesson from the schmaltzy medley that Lady Gaga bumbled through at least year's tribute to David Bowie.
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I'm not sure that adds up to much, and it seems to me that Ms. Cracknell, whose pacing and use of the stage are otherwise superbly delicate, may have been compensating for that when she appended a schmaltzy (albeit effective) coda.
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The American version of The X Factor aired from 2011 to 2013, and though it hardly became the cultural phenomenon that Idol was in the early aughts, I'm proud to say I've cried (and cried) to all three schmaltzy seasons since then.
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The streets around Second Avenue south of 19813th Street formed a neighborhood where less than a century earlier a dozen Yiddish theaters had drawn flocks of garment workers, peddlers and shopkeepers to see everything from "King Lear" in Yiddish to schmaltzy family melodramas.
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Seen in hindsight following Trump's comments in Singapore about condo construction on the North Korean coast, and his own schmaltzy economy-first video for Kim, one recent news alert from Pyongyang seems to hint that Kim already has this on his mind.
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If you still haven't decided whether to travel down the Christmas Prince road of absurdity versus the Christmas Inheritance slight grounding in reality, the deciding factor as to which movie you should watch boils down to how you like your schmaltzy movies to end.
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Grace refuses point blank when I ask her to talk about society's attitudes toward disability in China, and I'm told that she was dismayed at her depiction in a recent TV news report about the bakery that featured schmaltzy music played over her interview.
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"Schmaltzy," in coordination with the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, will feature food stories from Zohar Zohar of Zucker Bakery, Nir Mesika of Timna restaurant, Marissa Lippert of Nourish Kitchen and Table, Ed Schoenfeld of Red Farm restaurant and Stacey Harwood-Lehman, a writer.
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Yet "Jane" consistently earned those sentimental moments, which explains how the finale could cover so much ground and somehow strike nary a false note, even with the schmaltzy vows and crowd-pleasing sequence that had Jane commandeer a bus to get to her wedding on time.
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You can pretty much ignore the second one—A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night is a schmaltzy Sinatra-style tribute to pop standards of yesteryear, but it's more interesting for its bizarre placement in the Nilsson catalog, nestled right between Son of Schmilsson and Pussy Cats, than for the music it contains.
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Bob Dylan admired him ("I saw him in 60-something at Carnegie Hall, and he just blew my brains out," he said in 1987), but many Americans never really took to the French crooner, perhaps because his lyrics were so execrably translated or perhaps because they regarded his songs as schmaltzy rather than soulful.
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On the latest episode of HBO's Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver took it upon himself to fix Facebook's schmaltzy ad with a dose of cold honesty: the massive social media company doesn't really care about you, it cares about making money, and it's almost certain that nothing will change in its business policies.
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People labeled it as "schmaltzy but potent", while James L. Brown from USC Today called it a "long slow ballad".
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However, Entertainment Weeklys Simon Vozick-Levinson gave Fearless a C+ rating and described most of its music as "schmaltzy pop-&-B".Vozick-Levinson, Simon. Review: Fearless. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2009-08-27.
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Jessica Phillips of Country Weekly called the song "the romantic zenith of the album". Rolling Stone reviewer Will Hermes said that it was a "spirited cover" that "makes the most of its big, sculpted hooks". Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine was less favorable, saying in his review of the album, "His weakness for overwrought, schmaltzy pop ballads rears its head on second single 'God Gave Me You,' which sounds like something Bryan Adams or Foreigner would have recorded 20 years ago." Similarly, Melissa Mairz of Entertainment Weekly thought that it was a "schmaltzy power ballad".
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Dave Simpson of The Guardian described its music as "thoughtful, sincere, weighty stuff, tackling subjects from African poverty to the diamond trade without sounding preachy or schmaltzy".Simpson, Dave. Review: Distant Relatives. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2010-05-18.
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Denis Donoghue praised The Examined Life in The Wilson Quarterly, but stated that it had some passages that were less strong than others. The journalist Jane O'Grady called the work "disappointingly schmaltzy" in The Guardian. In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2005), the philosopher Anthony Quinton described The Examined Life as "unkindly treated".
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An NPR reviewer of Valle's Take Off commented that "When Ramon Valle keeps it crisp, he can hardly go wrong, with percolating bass and drums at his back. But the pianist also has a more romantic, even schmaltzy side, where he tries to wow you with a ballad. Then he may show off his technique in a way that doesn't help".
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Boston's WBUR-FM summarized Love Never Dies as "a highly stylish, colorfully rendered mess", adding that "the whole thing is just schmaltzy and preposterous". The Las Vegas Review-Journal accused Love Never Dies, "a hand- wringing, heart-clutching melodrama so overdone it invites unintentional giggles", of "besmirching fond memories" of "its illustrious predecessor". Houstonia also compared Love Never Dies unfavourably to the original Phantom.
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It was made into a film by director Richard Linklater which was released in 2009. The Guardian critic Sophie Martelli described the film as a "schmaltzy yet charming coming- of-age story." Me and Orson Welles was a The New York Times bestseller and the film in 2008 starred Zac Efron and Claire Danes. The movie was filmed in the Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man.
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Conversely, Ian Inglis considers the song to be "absolutely central to the form and content" of its parent album, and Ian MacDonald views it as the "conscience" of Sgt. Pepper and "the necessary sermon that comes with the community singing". Musicologist Russell Reising writes that Harrison's song provides the exception on Sgt. Pepper, where the Beatles otherwise "retreated lyrically into predominantly banal, occasionally schmaltzy, and often trivial vignettes".
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Grandfathered has received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the series has a rating of 68%, based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "John Stamos is as handsome and charming as ever, but Grandfathereds jokes are tired and schmaltzy." On Metacritic, the series has a score of 62 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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A New York Times reviewer called it a "bucolic drama of no discernible merit". The Monthly Film Bulletin praised the dog actors, but felt the film was "stultifyingly mawkish, with a touch of supposed humor contributed by an allegedly English chauffeur". Bob Ross, of the Tampa Tribune, considered it to be an "earnest, well-acted story". Leonard Maltin felt it was a "genuine if schmaltzy" adaptation of the novel.
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Jim Farber of New York Daily News provided a mixed review, writing that "[Shelton] sings with measured resolve while [Aguilera] nearly suffocates him. It's certainly a powerful approach, but it comes at the cost of communicating genuine soul". Negatively, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine called it "an out-of-place country-pop duet with Blake Shelton, who feels like a cheap cash-in", while Annie Zaleskie for The A.V. Club criticized its "schmaltzy" sound.
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The TripleCast service took a very austere, no-frills approach to broadcasting that included play-by-play and commentary, but few graphics and absolutely no feature stories or background vignettes. According to some TripleCast viewers, this made the main NBC coverage seem "schmaltzy and overproduced". In addition, NBC's main coverage was denigrated to some extent, with Triplecast viewers knowing some results 10 hours or more before the events were aired on the main network.
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The Bucket List received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 41%, based on 174 reviews, with an average rating of 5.15/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Not even the earnest performances of the two leads can rescue The Bucket List from its schmaltzy script". Metacritic gave the film a score of 42 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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Woodring frequently mentions Captain Beefheart, Bill Frisell as musical favorites, but also "schmaltzy, potent, cheap pop music with strings from the late 50s and early 60s, the Theme from A Summer Place, Holiday for Strings, the theme from Midnight Cowboy...that sort of dreck." He also listens to a lot of classical musichis brother, with whom he's close, is a classical musician and has introduced him to much of what he listens to.
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August Rush received mixed reviews from film critics. , the film holds a 37% approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 123 reviews with an average rating of 4.83/10. The site's consensus reads: "Though featuring a talented cast, August Rush cannot overcome the flimsy direction and schmaltzy plot." On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 38 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally negative reviews".
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" Charlie Ritchie at Bloggerhythms said in 2011 that the song's "centerpiece was an almost schmaltzy spoken passage in the middle that was very much not the kind of thing Browne normally put on vinyl."Ritchie, Charlie. Bloggerhythms,"Forgotten Music Thursday: Jackson Browne - Hold Out (1980)" March 31, 2011. William Ruhlmann at Allmusic said that "'Hold on Hold Out,' the traditional big, long, last song on the album, was awkwardly, not winningly, intimate.
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The album received generally favorable reviews. Rolling Stone magazine gave a mixed review, giving the album 2.5 stars out of 5. The reviewer said that "Jewel doesn't call upon the gritty storytelling of a real Nashville star […] the album is overcrowded by placid soft-rock tunes like "Two Become One" and "Anyone But You" with schmaltzy choruses and flavorless piano-laden verses." Allmusic gave a mixed review too, giving the album 2 and half stars out of 5.
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Nakesa Mumbi Moody, of the Associated Press, wrote it was "sexy" and "dreamy". Writing for The Boston Globe, Joan Anderman called it a "breezy" track with a "disturbingly trite" theme. The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, in their review for "One of Those Days" called the song "schmaltzy" and wrote that it could have been done in the 1980s. Jimmy Draper of San Francisco Bay Guardian noted that "the song seems so anticlimactic in comparison to the real-life pot".
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According to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the critical consensus holds that the film is "derivative and schmaltzy" and "strongly mottled by contrivances that even the charisma of stars Diane Lane and Richard Gere can't repair". The site rates the movie as "rotten", with a score of 30% based on 132 reviews. Metacritic scored the film with a 39/100, or "generally unfavorable", based on 26 critics' reviews. Although the movie was panned, it grossed $84.4 worldwide.
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Jubilee is the third album by the band Ten Shekel Shirt. It was originally released on August 19, 2008 by Rounder Records but after parting ways with the label Jubilee was re-released independently in 2009. From the Ten Shekel Shirt website: The origin of the word Jubilee has nothing to do with a wedding anniversary or a schmaltzy Las Vegas show. It has everything to do with the emancipation of slaves and the celebration of freedom and justice.
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This film proves that she is in the best phase of her career and enjoying her roles. This sentimental-family drama completely belongs to Samantha but both Lakshmi and Rajendra Prasad have also added their strength with great performances". Sify gave 3 out of 5 stars stating "Official remake of Korean drama Miss Granny, Samantha starrer Oh Baby is watchable for Samantha's energetic performance. Schmaltzy ending and flabby runtime almost kill the film but it finally works to an extent thanks to Samantha.
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In December 1997 Norman Smith of Cross Rhythms rated the album as 2 out of 10 and described the video as showcasing "glitzy, good looking, manufactured, well dressed, designer, brand new hairdo worship" where "only the beautiful, the groomed and the young are on display". He opined that "Although the songs themselves are sung with a certain conviction ... no matter how it's dressed up, and this dog's dinner of an offering ... [is a] contextless collection of schmaltzy, Sydney soap song[s]".
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The Lucky One received mostly negative reviews from critics. At Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a "negative" rating of 21%, based on 134 reviews and an average rating of 4.2/10, with the critical consensus saying, "While it provides the requisite amount of escapist melodrama, The Lucky One ultimately relies on too many schmaltzy clichés to appeal to anyone not already familiar with the Nicholas Sparks formula". It also has a score of 39 on Metacritic based on 35 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
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Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C, with Owen Gleiberman describing it as "a hymn to sappiness". CNN's Paul Clinton dismissed the remake as a "schmaltzy" and "vapid" version of Wings of Desire. The Washington Posts Michael O'Sullivan dismissed it as "a mawkish debasement of its source material", asking "When will Hollywood learn to leave well enough alone?" Michael Wilmington gave it two and a half stars in The Chicago Tribune, enjoying the appearance of the film but concluding it feels "forced and mechanically weepy".
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It is followed by a "schmaltzy" chorus inspired by Philadelphia soul in which Madonna sings "It's a hustle" amid "zany" backing verses about "a new democracy". On one particular section, there's a rap that features the artists using a "cheesy" accent - compared by some critics to the vocal style she used on her 1990 album I'm Breathless and electronic duo Daft Punk - to sing "Each new birthday gives me hope / that's why I don't smoke that dope" and talks about her brain being "her only friend".
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"Swinging" music of the era is also considered "lounge" and consisted of a schmaltzy continuation of the swing jazz era of the 1930s and 1940s, but with more of an emphasis on the vocalist. Soft and gentle vocalists such as Dooley Wilson, Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Jackie Gleason, Wayne Newton, Louis Prima, Sam Butera and Bobby Vinton are notable examples of lounge music. The music of Burt Bacharach was soon featured as part of many lounge singers' repertoires. Such artists performed mainly at featured lounges in Las Vegas casinos.
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Finally, Billboard picked it as the singer's 98th greatest single; "the delicate composition and high-register vocal make this exquisite breakup ballad a rare moment of true fragility in Madonna's catalog". Slant Magazines Paul Schrodt placed it at number 77 in his ranking of the singer's singles, calling it "a sleepy travelogue set to schmaltzy acoustic guitar and saxophone and a male chorus echoing Eva Perón’s —and by extension Madonna’s— self-pitying complaints about moving from one place to another. Political and psychological nuance, meanwhile, are nowhere in sight".
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In the Digital Audio and Compact Disc Review, a review of the album commented "...but there's just no hope for such dull, lethargic ballads as "Blow Wind Blow" and "Sleep Like Breathing"." The Trouser Press Record Guide singled-out the song as the album's "low point", describing it as "stiflingly schmaltzy". In a retrospective review of Raindancing, Paul Scott-Bates of the music website Louder Than War commented that the song's release as a single was "almost criminally ignored". Loz Etheridge of God is in the TV described the song as a "tragically overlooked duet" and a "standout" on Raindancing.
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" Arwa Haider of Metro viewed it as a "cinematic drama of the rapper's Westside life experience, which could easily have become schmaltzy but is fuelled by his rugged wordplay and guests on sharp form." Monica Herrera of Rolling Stone stated that "the Compton MC doesn't seem to have given his long-delayed fourth album top priority." [...] however commented "It's proof that, just when you least expect it, he can still rage compellingly." Jayson Greene of The Village Voice gave a mixed review, writing "when there is a firm hand reining him in, Game can still make good rap music.
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It's one of the best episodes of TV of all time." Redding adds, "If you watch this incredible episode and don't recognize it as great TV, you're hopeless ... A 'fantasy' show delivers the most stark and realistic take on death I've ever seen, deftly depicting how a loved one who dies suddenly becomes 'the body'." Gareth McLean in The Guardian rejected the notion that Buffy is similar to other "schmaltzy American teen show(s)" like Dawson's Creek: "This episode was a brave, honest and wrenching portrayal of death and loss. The way this was handled by Joss Whedon ... was ingenious.
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And we went into an area that Mariah didn't really go into-in > her words, it was a little bit too schmaltzy or too ballady or too old- > fashioned as far as melody and lyrics. As they completed the song's demo, Tommy Mottola, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment and Carey's fiancé, walked into the studio. After hearing the rough version of the song, on which they were still working, he became interested in it, asking what project the song belonged to. Carey explained to him the concept and how the song would be used for the film Hero.
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He also magically acquires an electric guitar which causes whoever hears it to dance uncontrollably whenever he plays rock and roll, and he can change his form into virtually anything, limited only by his often surreal imagination. Tad has no memory of his time as the obnoxious and egotistical "Sultan of Swingers", and the only ones who know of his secret identity are his Uncle Bob and his highly educated talking dog, Harvard-Harvard. Super-Hip's battle-cry is "Down with/Blech to Lawrence Welk!", as hearing the television bandleader's schmaltzy music acts like kryptonite on him.
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Betsy Sharkey, Movie Review: 'Love, Wedding, Marriage', The Los Angeles Times, June 03, 2011 Slant Magazine said it was "wooden and shallow".Kalvin Henely, Love, Wedding, Marriage, Slant Magazine, June 03, 2011 The Hollywood Reporter called it "a flat romantic comedy" [...] "that would have seemed insipid even in 1953".Todd McCarthy, Love Wedding Marriage: Film Review, The Hollywood Reporter, 4/30/2011 They added that Moore came across as a "high school student" and that "Lutz's dyed blond hair does nothing to encourage taking him seriously." The Village Voice said it was full of "half- hearted melodramatics and schmaltzy bromides".
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Jonathan Franzen felt conflicted about his book The Corrections being chosen as a book club selection. After the announcement was made, he expressed distaste with being in the company of other Oprah's Book Club authors, saying in an interview that Winfrey had "picked some good books, but she's picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe, myself, even though I think she's really smart and she's really fighting the good fight." Franzen added that his novel was a "hard book for that audience." Following the criticism Franzen was uninvited from the televised book club dinner, and he apologized profusely.
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Carey and her peers, according to Garry Mulholland, are "the princesses of wails [...] virtuoso vocalists who blend chart-oriented pop with mature MOR torch song." Author and writer Lucy O'Brien attributed the comeback of Barbra Streisand's "old- fashioned showgirl" to Carey and Dion, and described them and Houston as "groomed, airbrushed and overblown to perfection." Carey's musical transition and use of more revealing clothing during the late 1990s were, in part, initiated to distance herself from this image, and she subsequently said that most of her early work was "schmaltzy MOR." Some have noted that unlike Houston and Dion, Carey writes and produces her own music.
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"Meteorite" is built over a "disco beat", lyrically the song is a running "commentary on celebrity culture", and contains a sample from "Goin' Up in Smoke", performed by Eddie Kendricks. "Camouflage" is a piano ballad, followed by "Money" featuring rapper Fabulous and features a sample from "Alabeke", performed by Dan Snatch, and "Rapper Dapper Snapper" performed by Edwin Birdsong. "Money" is an R&B; song built over a "thumping" beat produced by Hit-Boy with lyrics that revolve around money not being important. "One More Try" is a cover of George Michael's 1988 single of the same name, with an "'80s taste" and a "schmaltzy" production.
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He awarded the release four out of five possible stars. Natalie Nichols from the Los Angeles Times rates Pilgrim with two out of four possible stars, reviewing it with the predicate "fair" and thinks the majority of tracks on the release were not that thought through, however, two songs were: "'My Father's Eyes', Clapton's rumination on maturity, hold their own against the wall of sound. While his guitar playing is kept on its usual leash here, he lets loose occasional bursts of staccato blues licks, as on the funky 'She's Gone', which musters up some sass to offset all the heartbreak". Nichols disliked the album's "schmaltzy ballads" the most.
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As a Jewish doctor who must forever feel himself an outsider in the Catholic Italian hills...Sam Levene is superb in a role of many colors and nothing is more helpful than the tension of his unyielding integrity. There is bite as well as bravura elsewhere." In a 1967 interview with theatre critic William Glover of the Associated Press, Sam Levene said "the Jews I’ve played sometimes may have been similar but they were never schmaltzy; regarding the roles I’ve done, I’ve tried very carefully to define humor even if there was none.” Levene lost the role of Nathan Detroit to Frank Sinatra in the film version.
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Bad is musically a heavier and more "aggressive" record than Thriller, with Jackson moving away from the heavy-groove sound and high-pitched vocals which featured on both Off the Wall and Thriller. Bad primarily incorporates pop, rock, funk and R&B;, but also explores other genres such as soul and hard rock. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic noted that Bad moved Jackson "deeper into hard rock, deeper into schmaltzy adult contemporary, deeper into hard dance – essentially taking each portion of Thriller to an extreme, while increasing the quotient of immaculate studiocraft." The album's song lyrics relate to romance and paranoia, the latter being a recurring theme in Jackson's albums.
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Although it swept the boards at the National Song Contest via a public voting system, the song was unkindly dubbed 'Millennium Of Cheese' by cynics in Ireland, who accused it of being yet another bland ballad with schmaltzy lyrics. However, it still remains Ireland's best placing in the Eurovision since the new system of phone voting took place scoring more votes than the combined total of Ireland's next 5 entries. The song was performed twenty-third on the night, following Turkey's Pınar Ayhan & The SOS with "Yorgunum anla" and preceding Austria's The Rounder Girls with "All To You". At the close of voting, it had received 92 points, placing 6th in a field of 24.
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Futterman noted that "Rory's a natural to sing Bublé" on "Home" and Chaney said he "sang it nicely enough", but neither expressed much enthusiasm about the rendition, and Chaney gave it a "C" grade. Slezak and Lynch were slightly more generous with their matching grades of "C+", but were also unimpressed: Lynch declared it "too schmaltzy for my tastes", and Slezak admitted he doesn't "get" McGinty. The two songs sung by Hiram and LeRoy Berry received little comment, in part due to their brevity. Chaney was disappointed that "Chapel of Love" was so brief, while Lynch called it "acceptably fun", and similarly approved of "You're the Top", which he called "goofy, lighthearted family fun".
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He does not, for instance, assign a romance per cop, nor give any of them elaborate schmaltzy back stories, yet we get to know most of them well through the work dynamic between them, snatches of their repartee with each other and the occasional telephone call back home." Baradwaj Rangan noted that the film's story despite being about a Malayali posse, looks at all Indians. He praised Mammootty's performance, saying the actor "looks past his numerous cop roles from the past and finds a tender new side to the man-in-khaki archetype." The Week rated the movie 4 out of 5 stating: "This Mammootty-starrer is a police story with a difference.
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In his 2015 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin gave it two and a half stars, judging it "still intriguing" though losing much of the atmosphere of the original. That year, Indiewire, in reviewing remakes, called City of Angels "a sickly bastardization" of its source material, though remarking Wenders himself was unable to duplicate its success with his 1993 sequel, Faraway, So Close!. In 2017, MSN included it in its 20 All-Time Worst Movie Remakes list, acknowledging it as a financial hit but "a schmaltzy tearjerker" compared to the poetry of the original. The film has a 58% score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 6.24/10.
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Retrieved September 18, 2010. In Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America (2005), Kathleen Rooney describes Winfrey as "a serious American intellectual who pioneered the use of electronic media, specifically television and the Internet, to take reading – a decidedly non-technological and highly individual act – and highlight its social elements and uses in such a way to motivate millions of erstwhile non- readers to pick up books." When author Jonathan Franzen's book was selected for the Book Club, he reportedly "cringed" and said selected books tend to be "schmaltzy". After James Frey's A Million Little Pieces was found to contain fabrications in 2006, Winfrey confronted him on her show over the breach of trust.
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" Stephen M. Deusner of Pitchfork Media also compared "Run" to Coldplay and he wrote it "exists solely for its uplifting, if oddly fatalistic, chorus ... which will surely have concertgoers raising their lighters during the inevitable second-encore singalong." He continued saying it is an "unapologetically anthemic" in which throws in some schmaltzy strings at the climax that practically cry out to score the big smooch in some teen-friendly romantic comedy." Kevin Forest Moreau considered its lyrics as "unrestrained earnestness". Whilst an Uncut magazine reviewer marked it as a highlight, Devon Powers wrote for PopMatters it is "easy and lush", and Paul Nolan considered it "the perfect modern hymn to broken relationships".
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Jason Lipshutz from Billboard deemed the song a "visceral ballad" capable of conveying its theme of relationships. John Walker from MTV praised the track and felt that the song could be written from the perspective of Jesus and denoted possible Christian undertones lying. Kitty Empire of The Guardian reckoned the track was "ungainly" and "adverbial"; Helen Brown of The Daily Telegraph wrote that its lyrics had "self-help lingo", although she remarked that "Perry's genuine faith in it, along with her wit and sense of fun, powers her through". Kevin Fallon from The Daily Beast regarded it as adequate for a Nicholas Sparks-adapted movie, however, he noted that Perry's vocal delivery saved the song of being "schmaltzy".
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This bio-chip is a digitized form of one of the aliens with a link back to the ship – essentially allowing everyone to experience Ed Firmley by proxy. The bio-chip is supposed to be passive, serving only as a means of relaying the mystic experience of sound to an entire race. Soon the alien presence in the bio-chip becomes bored of Firmley’s music, which is bland, schmaltzy schlock, and the pop music that he constantly listens to. As a consequence of this boredom, the bio-chip turns from being passive to active, controlling what Firmley listens to as well as feeding him mathematical formulas that he begins to use as the basis of his compositions.
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Record no. M00170020139. Siskel picked it as the seventh of the top ten movies of 1993, while Roger Ebert picked it as the fifth of his own top ten movies of 1993. Record no. AAS280292. It was voted one of the favorite films of 1993 among 1,297 readers of The Arizona Daily Star, ranked number 14 out of 253. Record no. arch_8568 However, when the film premiered in the United Kingdom, "some British critics found it more schmaltzy than sour- sweet." It was one of 400 nominated movies as of 1998 to be listed as part AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, Record no. 9711200004. See complete list but it failed to be listed in both the 1998 list and the 2007 list.
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Among Beatles biographers, Ian MacDonald said that "If any single recording shows why The Beatles broke up, it's 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'." He continued: Author Jonathan Gould cites "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" as an example of the selfishness inherent in the Beatles' creative partnership, whereby a composition by McCartney or Lennon would be given preference over a more substantial song by Harrison. He also rues McCartney's penchant for a light entertainment style that the Beatles had sought to render obsolete, and concludes: In 2009, PopMatters editor John Bergstrom concluded his list "the worst of the Beatles" with the song. He said that while McCartney had previously created "some borderline-schmaltzy, music hall-inspired songs", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" was "where even the secret admirer of 'Rocky Raccoon' must draw the line".
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Thomas Sotinel of Le Monde gave the film five out of five stars. Dave Chua of Mypaper also praised the film's "magnificent understated eye for detail, from the grain of wood on doors to the lovingly captured forest scenes, that help lift the movie above regular animation fare." Chris Michael of The Guardian gave the film four out of five, writing that "telling the story through the eyes of the harried, bereaved but indomitable mother gives this calm, funny, only occasionally schmaltzy family film a maturity Twilight never reached." Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described it as "an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange," and felt the English language performances were inappropriately sweet and simplistic.
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Pollack described the scoring as "truly inspired", citing it as an example of "[Lennon & McCartney's] flair for creating stylistic hybrids"; in particular, he praises the "ironic tension drawn between the schmaltzy content of what is played by the quartet and the restrained, spare nature of the medium in which it is played". The tonic key of the song is F major (although, since McCartney tuned his guitar down a whole step, he was playing the chords as if it were in G), where the song begins before veering off into the key of D minor. It is this frequent use of the minor, and the ii-V7 chord progression (Em and A7 chords in this case) leading into it, that gives the song its melancholy aura. The A7 chord is an example of a secondary dominant, specifically a V/vi chord.
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In the book Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, Dmitri Borgmann tries to find the longest such word. The longest one he found was "dermatoglyphics" at 15 letters. He coins several longer hypothetical words, such as "thumbscrew-japingly" (18 letters, defined as "as if mocking a thumbscrew") and, with the "uttermost limit in the way of verbal creativeness", "pubvexingfjord-schmaltzy" (23 letters, defined as "as if in the manner of the extreme sentimentalism generated in some individuals by the sight of a majestic fjord, which sentimentalism is annoying to the clientele of an English inn"). In the book Making the Alphabet Dance, Ross Eckler reports the word "subdermatoglyphic" (17 letters) can be found in Lowell Goldmith's article Chaos: To See a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower.
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" Richard Roeper and Mick LaSalle also gave highly positive reviews to the film, with the former saying that it "remains true to the book, right down to the bittersweet final image" and the latter giving it his highest rating of five stars, calling it, "an enchanting, beautiful and brilliantly imagined film that constitutes a technological breakthrough." James Berardinelli gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, stating that it is "a delightful tale guaranteed to enthrall viewers of all ages", and ranked it as the 10th best film of 2004, tying with The Incredibles. Ian Nathan of Empire Magazine gave the film three out of five stars, and said, "For all the fairy-lit wonder, some will rail at the idea of Back to the Futures director dabbling with such a schmaltzy tale. Cynics will sneeze in shock; children will cuddle up and dream along.
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The sculpture received a poor critical reception, being cited by Antony Gormley as "a very good example of the crap out there", comparing it to other examples of public art in the UK, and later referred to as a "terrible, schmaltzy, sentimental piece of kitsch" by Tim Marlow of the Royal Academy of Arts. Jeremy Deller dismissed it as "barely a work of art". Day commented that "[a] lot of people will no doubt detest it because it is not violent or controversial". Further controversy was caused by Day's 2008 planned addition of a bronze relief frieze around the plinth. Originally depicting a commuter falling into the path of an Underground train driven by the Grim Reaper, Day believed the piece to be a "tragi-comic style and was supposed to be a metaphor for the way people’s imaginations ran wild" but revised the frieze before the final version was installed.
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Spin said it was the singer's "sweetest melody since 'What It Feels Like for a Girl', with her register dropped an octave or two until it resembles the Liz Phair of 2005's (underrated) Somebody's Miracle". Q magazine called it a "movingly autobiographical title track, where Madonna reflects at length on her career and her motivation. It makes you wonder what she thinks she has to prove in 2015 with a song like 'Bitch I'm Madonna' when she proved it all and we’ve been paying attention for years". In 2018, Billboard picked it as the singer's 72nd greatest song, calling it "a sentimental sing-along that looks back on her bumpy road to stardom, adding some shrugged-off self-awareness ("I spent some time as a narcissist...trying to be so provocative/ I said, 'Oh yeah, that was me'") to keep things from getting too schmaltzy".
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For the Oscars, it usually entails fitting 40-45 tributes into a three- to four-minute film. The final montage, usually accompanied by what producer Chuck Workman calls "some schmaltzy music," is typically finished several days in advance of the ceremony in which it is to be shown. To be included in the Oscars’ In Memoriam segment, one need not have been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The final decision of whether or not a person is included depends on that person's level and quality of contributions to the movie industry. According to Bruce Davis, executive director of AMPAS from 1990 to 2011, if it is doubtful that a given actor belongs in the Oscars’ memorial tribute, and the actor was better known for work performed on television or Broadway, the committee will typically cut the actor in question from the Oscars’ In Memoriam montage.
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Technically proficient and brilliantly written in spats", finishing with: "Still, This Is My Truth's spot as one of the bands [sic] weakest releases is often overstated, if only because the rot was just beginning and the future predicted a bigger storm to come." Sarah Zupko, writing for Pitchfork, said that the album was her "album of the year so far", stating that "The Manic Street Preachers are also one of the few groups capable of integrating orchestral instruments in a way that still produces great rock music (check out the cello in "My Little Empire"), always avoiding the schmaltzy elevator music that can result when some rock musos get a hold of an orchestra. Meanwhile, they manage to infuse some quite dour lyrics with some of the most haunting melodies in rock this side of Radiohead. Bradfield and Moore seldom choose the obvious chords, arrangements and melodies, resulting in music that is heads- and- tails above almost any band on the planet.
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On Willennium, Smith is said to celebrate his success on a number of songs, including album opener "I'm Comin'" and single "Freakin' It", in which he responds to criticism directed at lead single "Wild Wild West" by pointing out its performance on the singles charts. Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club goes as far as to claim that on the album Smith "takes the offensive, lashing out against critics who've labeled him a soft sell-out", and points out that some of the lyrics level criticism against the gangsta rap genre. A review by the magazine NME categorised songs on the album into two categories: firstly, "partied-up, pumped-up, knock-out rap records", and secondly, "schmaltzy songs about brotherly love and stuff". Cynthia Fuchs of the website PopMatters claims that Willennium is "an album about the future, specifically, Smith’s future cred on the hip-hop front", and points out the presence of lyrical themes such as money, politics, and relationships.
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" Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic was critical with the album's length of over 70 minutes but considered it Norwood's most assured, risky album yet, stating: "Full Moon comes the closest to being a full-fledged, well-rounded album, as well as establishing a personality as a singer [...] There are plenty of moments here that are seductively smooth and even the filler goes down smoothly." He gave the album four out of five stars. Slant Magazine writer Sal Cinquemani rated the album three stars out of five and compared it to Janet Jackson's 1986 album Control, commenting: "For the most part, Full Moon is certainly a forward-minded album, lifting Brandy's typically schmaltzy brand of pop-R&B; to a new, edgier plateau [...] The all-grown-up Miss Moesha seems to be making her final transition from sitting up in her room to sitting on top of the world." J. Victoria Sanders from PopMatters considered Full Moon "an achievement" and added: "As she proclaims her womanhood with throaty whispers and assertive wails, [...] this grown-up Brandy [...] has one thing in common with the cherubic girl she used to be: she still sings with relaxing humility and stylequalities the music world is in dire need of right about now.
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