Steven Spielberg, for all his weaknesses as a filmmaker—a treacly
|
|
Of course, when you're everywhere, you run the risk of being stretched thin, and Giacchino has recently been just that, even in 2017 (where he wrote the treacly, awful score for the treacly, awful Book of Henry).
|
|
Treacly music, art from a '90s flash game aimed at your niece.
|
|
When Dunkirk does stray into character-based drama things can get treacly.
|
|
But 2013's Love in the Future was an overly long, treacly dud.
|
|
He smiles and leans forward, and then spews venom in a treacly tone.
|
|
The maple-syrup marinade on thin steaks of grilled pork shoulder rendered them treacly.
|
|
Canadians and Americans have long held their own versions of the treacly liquid as superior.
|
|
Its one Trump-centric song, "Like Home," is a treacly piano number with Alicia Keys.
|
|
And it mostly refrains from overegging what could have been a treacly, tear-salted pudding.
|
|
But it's not treacly; it's like a day at the fair: full of visual delights.
|
|
There's truth to it, but treacly testaments to the power of sports can quickly become overblown.
|
|
Amma and Camille's warped personalities are the direct result of Adora's personal brand of treacly cruelty.
|
|
While Gerwig's films can edge toward a constructed quality associated with treacly white hipster twee-ness.
|
|
Vee's (Lorraine Toussant) treacly, sinister sweetness leaves a permanent mark on everyone she encounters, especially Taystee (Danielle Brooks).
|
|
Why were his treacly ballads and mild toe-tappers picked out as the ultimate symbols of consumerist vapidity?
|
|
You can easily imagine some Hollywood executive eyeing up the tale for a treacly feature film of interracial understanding.
|
|
The marvelous Sheila Hancock is wasted in this treacly, trite story of a widow who climbs a Scottish mountain.
|
|
It came out frothy and tasted pretty good, but, like the oil pulling, left a treacly feeling in my mouth.
|
|
Compared to sinister, treacly villains like Vee (Lorraine Toussaint) and tough, steely heroes like Red, Madison's schtick seems dangerously cheesy.
|
|
She, exhibited two works from the sometimes treacly series "Imaginative Portraits," similar to the one that opens the Whitney show.
|
|
There's an enhanced treacly through line, at odds with the prevailing frat-house high jinks, about the search for family.
|
|
The dumb jock sure seems like he did it, but could a treacly Spanish teacher have it out for him?
|
|
Updated again at 12:05 ET on Jan 5 to include Groupon's treacly walkback of Chrome-only support in a tweet.
|
|
The show stirred up controversy last year by inviting Trump to host an episode and supplying him with lame, treacly jokes.
|
|
You will still be listed as their friend but will no longer be subject to their treacly kitties and other nonsense.
|
|
Don't believe the sweet, treacly greetings exchanged between Wind Gap residents for a second — these niceties mask the real dynamics at work.
|
|
Back in the 1950s, sincerity seemed treacly and boring, and authenticity, in the form of, say, Johnny Cash, seemed daring and new.
|
|
The scenes are aesthetically jarring: the blood is spilled in treacly tones, so as not to splatter on the impeccably rendered period shopfronts.
|
|
Even as China became a global superpower in the late 20th century, big-budget Chinese movies were, by and large, treacly, patriotic fare.
|
|
Heaven is somewhere in Detroit, where you get paid handsomely to pump out hacky columns, treacly novels, and musicals about God abolishing hockey.
|
|
A BBC critic, Nicholas Barber, had a more mixed reaction, and proffered, like some others, that the movie's nostalgia bordered on the treacly.
|
|
I rewrote it with those elements in place, but covered with the treacly, grasping attempts at affection of a broken and desperately lonely woman.
|
|
"I don't want anything to appear treacly in print, but I honestly fell in love with her the day I met her," he said.
|
|
While this instinct may come from a good place, it often lands in a bad one, the treacly territory of euphemism and happy talk.
|
|
But it had the saving grace of the performance by Robin Williams, whose charismatic strangeness usually gave a weird, anchoring conviction to treacly parts.
|
|
Despite its treacly reputation, Christmas Vacation bristles with the same feelings of economic resentment and vulnerability that have stunted American life over the last decade.
|
|
Hue's character just comes too close to a treacly, unintentional parody of modern-day Byrons who pour out their angst on typewriters in coffee shops.
|
|
It has Murphy's gleeful sadism in spades, but none of his manic camp energy; it has his treacly didacticism, but none of his genuine emotion.
|
|
All told, it's sort of like a much less treacly and more sincere Macklemore song–no disrespect to Macklemore, as he's evidently a nice person.
|
|
While I wouldn't call tragedies like Bambi and The Lion King treacly, a cynic could easily cast those weepy titles as nothing more than melodrama.
|
|
The lessons are so treacly, and their delivery method so single-minded, that the Valley Girl phrase "gag me with a spoon" springs to mind.
|
|
I craved such an escape myself—but I was also mystified by the show's reception, because the first season struck me as both treacly and exhausting.
|
|
Many of the genre's songs, slickly manufactured for a swooning teen audience, lean heavily on idealized, treacly romance—a litany of bad breakups and hopeless crushes.
|
|
If Love Is Blind had been all fun-but-down-to-earth Laurens and calm-but-soulful Camerons, well, it would have been boring and treacly.
|
|
When he finishes interjecting his treacly observations, he magically decomposes into flower petals or sunsets or storms you can walk though with your head held high.
|
|
The receptionist, who spoke in a treacly drawl, directed her to a question on the first page, which asked if the applicant was a United States citizen.
|
|
But instead of getting treacly and sentimental, we wanted to highlight some of the memorable terrible fathers who make the real parents look 10 times better by comparison.
|
|
The highly accomplished Julia Margaret Cameron produced many great portraits of prominent Victorian intellectuals, yet she can often slip into treacly sentimentality — particularly when she turned to children.
|
|
You approach a book with the subtitle "Tales From My Momma's Table" with trepidation, expecting treacly bits of maternal wisdom stirred into a creamy bowl of heartwarming anecdotes.
|
|
That seems to be the point of Thomas Chatterton Williams's memoir, "Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race," as described in Andrew Solomon's treacly review (Oct. 20).
|
|
It ran until 2009, providing one of the earliest television experiences for millions of toddlers while driving their parents and older siblings crazy with its treacly good cheer.
|
|
But all too often, Realive resorts to treacly music cues while Marc ponders The Big Questions of Life in voiceover, sometimes even referring to himself in the third person.
|
|
Despite both having dated lothario John Mayer, Katy Perry and Jennifer Aniston have forged a friendship that is greater than any treacly ballad played on some easy-listening station.
|
|
Sampled On: "Blem" Sampling this treacly 1983 Motown mega-hit seems like such a no-brainer for Drake, I had to double-check to make sure he hadn't before.
|
|
Regardless of whether the Olsens could predict what a treacly mess Fuller House was going to be when they were asked to be involved, they decided to opt out.
|
|
The video is dimly lit, the songwriting is pat and treacly, and Kiefer, despite being good at what he does for a day job, is just nobody's country star.
|
|
For one thing, it may have been inevitable that the film would cut the book's overt Christianity, but without it, the discussion of good and evil feels generic and treacly.
|
|
Animated in a watercolor style that evokes Celestine's paintings, this touching but never treacly work, dubbed in English, concludes this fall's BAMkids Movie Matinees at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
|
|
The other genuine comic spark comes from Bill Nighy, playing a washed-up, dissolute rock star named Billy Mack, who is trying for a comeback with a treacly Christmas record.
|
|
But her version, with a jazz rhythm section set over treacly string backgrounds, razes all the others, mostly through its contradictions: She sounds wearily bold, knowingly naïve, precise in her imprecision.
|
|
Last year's sleeper trend with its treacly allusions to butter churns, quilting bees and starchily kitted-out sister wives, has given way to something less like a costume, less aggressively maidenly.
|
|
Largely free from the trappings of treacly dialogue, these scenes place the emphasis where it belongs — on the rather remarkable performance by its misty-eyed child actor and on nature itself.
|
|
The treacly "Treat yo self" mantra popularized on Parks and Recreation has enabled many a stressed-out woman to place that $800 Anthropologie order (you can always return most of it, right?).
|
|
Since then, the platform has filled out a formidable roster of original programming for grown-ups, but family content has been lackluster — mostly treacly garbage like Fuller House and a Richie Rich reboot.
|
|
This region, which in the last quarter of the 20th century largely devoted itself to the mass production of fruity, treacly Beaujolais Nouveau, had been left moribund by a steep decline in demand.
|
|
He transformed Justin Bieber's "What do You Mean" into a treacly slow-dance number, and flipped Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" into the kind of soft-rock anthem you might hear late at night on QVC.
|
|
For Knausgaard, it will come at the hands of Alexander Payne, who in movies like Sideways and The Descendants proved himself to be an expert of turning the foibles of sad sacks into treacly Hollywood gold.
|
|
Sitting down to watch something from your streaming service of choice would seem to be a good option— but if you're assuming there's going to be an influx of treacly, holiday-themed specials, you'd be wrong.
|
|
There isn't a treacly soundtrack of indie pop or a revelatory plot twist, just two wounded people gradually revealing themselves while strolling through beautiful photography of buildings that cut clean, sharp lines against the blue summer sky.
|
|
Not only is 30 Rock's fake film a sly parody of Carrey's particular brand of feel-good slapstick, it's also silly, hyperbolic, and a pitch-perfect parody of the treacly holiday movies that leap day never gets.
|
|
Here are 11 great series either centered on working-class families or on underrepresented groups that find ways to dig into timely issues without becoming too treacly about it, and talk out tough political issues with true empathy.
|
|
After all, the cover is Hallmark-card treacly (poppies in soft focus), the publisher is known for its woo-woo titles, and the author, who calls herself a "loveologist," is also in the business of selling personal lubricants.
|
|
He and Cito Filomarino mostly agree about movies, except the ones they see on airplanes—the cabin air makes Guadagnino sentimental, and unduly prone to weep over treacly turns of plot—and they pitch in on each other's work.
|
|
The rapprochement between Donnie and Adam in the second act runs a tad long and approaches the treacly, but when the focus is on Dotty and her family's reckoning with her disease, the play is on firm footing, and consistently generates laughter.
|
|
Not only did it bat away the treacly, preachy conventional wisdom about how "every child needs a father" by putting it in the mouth of the dissolute, pathetic Dill, it belied it with an episode showing how women show up for each other.
|
|
" In the hands of another author this image could lead somewhere treacly, but Ortberg détournes his own pubescent angst by way of Apollo and Hyacinthus' doomed romance, putting the "ultima" back in Ultimate Frisbee: "I saw you noticed me taking my shirt off.
|
|
"The stories that had been told about the women in Jefferson's life had this almost honeyed, treacly portrayal of his relationship with his daughters and granddaughters," Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law and history at Harvard, said in a telephone interview.
|
|
Known for making his early tracks on tapes, he had idiosyncratic tastes, citing nerdy prog superstars like Yes (he was a drummer in a cover band for the British group as a teen) and treacly jazz fusionists Return to Forever as early musical heroes.
|
|
Within the space of just a few tracks, there's jaw-dropping samples of metal riffs, referee whistles, dial-tone drops, pinched "ow"s, Japanese rapping, and treacly synth lines that sound kind of like Dntel's cotton candy programming for the Postal Service—and sometimes more.
|
|
The film is a treacly rom com about a plucky but unpopular teenage girl named Lara Jean Song Covey (Lana Condor) who, through a series of farcical happenings straight out of Molière, ends up in a fake relationship with the king of the cafeteria: Peter Kavinsky.
|
|
Its centerpiece Trump song was all treacly platitudes and Alicia Keys, and it was surrounded by songs where he rapped about butts over the "I Love Rock N Roll" riff and/or rapped about ripping condoms in half in a shouted perversion of the Migos flow.
|
|
I needed a new challenge, time away from pregame shows that have become indistinguishable towers of babble, three-man broadcast booths (deliver me from low-talking Cal Ripken Jr. on TBS baseball) and treacly, genteel Masters coverage that is done to please the overlords at Augusta.
|
|
Decorated by Avenue Interior Design of Los Angeles, our 9963-square-foot standard king guest room — overlooking Denver's circa 1933 Benjamin Moore factory neon sign — was a victim of latter day design clichés: a sliding barn door to the bathroom, a button-tufted ottoman, a treacly framed compass.
|
|
Listen closely to 1000 Gecs, and you can hear basically anything you want to: the early-aughts rap and country that Les says she grew up listening to, the bitter tang of PC Music's energy-drink pop, digitalist ska, treacly dubstep, gory sludge metal, gurning techno, seasick musique concrète.
|
|
That site was fun the first two or three times you read it, but by now we know the drill: the players don't write their own stories, and everything that gets posted is the same treacly clickbait written in a voice that doesn't sound anything like how real athletes talk.
|
|
Another is a cheeky high-low mashup: in a gallery hung with postcards from famous art museum gift shops — including images of Picasso's "Weeping Woman," Goya's "Saturn Devours His Son," and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" — Wegman slips in a treacly winter wonderland by Thomas Kincade and a souvenir postcard from Yosemite National Park.
|
|
Here, in "The Last Samurai," the narrator tells us about the single sexual encounter she had with a British travel writer she derisively nicknames Liberace (because his prose style is facile and treacly): No sooner were Liberace and I in his bed without our clothes than I realised how stupid I had been.
|
|
What's missing from Kline's climate change vitrines is the element of surrealistic surprise that animated his previous work, from coffee presses whose treacly liquid contents have been infused with stimulants like Red Bull and Vivarin ("Sleep is for the Weak," 2011), to Teletubbies in SWAT uniforms with video screens on their bellies ("Freedom," 2015).
|
|
Retrieved December 30, 2017. electric guitar riffs, whistles, "and treacly synth lines that sound kind of like Dntel's cotton candy programming for the Postal Service," stated Thump."The 33 Best Albums of 2016". Thump. Vice Media.
|
|
Reviewers gave the song moderately positive reviews. Warren Truit of About.com found it "sentimental" while Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called it "a sweet duet". Allmusic reviewer Heather Phares said the song was "a treacly duet".
|
|
The beer is ranked highly on beer rating websites. Garrett Oliver notes its refreshing qualities and "distinctive acidic edge". On the other hand, it has been criticised by British journalist Tony Naylor as being "more about treacly, boozy warmth" than "complex flavour".
|
|
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 60 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "It's sentimental and treacly, but that's not enough to prevent My Afternoons with Margueritte from being truly affecting." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
|
|
Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine described "When I Was a Little Girl" as a "treacly" tune and another one inspired by Stefani's relationship with Shelton. Lyrically, Cinquemani determined it had the opposite meaning of No Doubt's 1995 single, co-written by Stefani, "Just a Girl". Her version of Wham!'s 1984 song "Last Christmas" is the sixth song, and according to Stefani, was "the most fun to record".
|
|
Later, in a museum, the narrator smells the same treacly smell and is told that it is molasses - a pure culture used to grow things. The narrator's attempts to track down what has happened to Mortimer, after Mortimer goes missing during a hurricane. A disturbing clue turns up in his bedroom. The story ends with his frightened next door neighbor having seen a black face at her window, something like a man wearing a gas mask or a snorkel.
|
|
Despite the grumpy, flatulent behavior the script demands of him, Mr. Falk rises above the treacly shenanigans."The New York Times review Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times graded the film B− and commented, "Nothing surprises in The Thing About My Folks except how effective such timeworn material can be when the right people deliver it. The movie contains little that we haven't seen before, but charm can make anything seem a bit fresher. Most credit goes to Peter Falk . . .
|
|
Dan Savoie of Rockstar Weekly said the song "is a more advanced lyric and shows a more political side to the young singer, but the gospel feel of the song really works with his voice." Savoie went on to say "The song just moved Bieber from the category of pop child star to responsible young man." Monica Herrera of Billboard wrote that the song was "a treacly but well-meaning ballad that taps into Bieber's spiritual beliefs." Katie Amoroso of ReviewStream.
|
|
Reception was mostly negative. John Lui of The Straits Times gave the film 2.5/5. He praised the "personal" "small moments" but criticised how "what little authenticity that can be glimpsed is buried under a treacly layer of television-style drama". In addition, he found that "[a]lmost every moment is freighted with moral significance, heavily underscored by dialogue and music" and "[f]or all the suffering, shame and strife baked into the story, there's little inner life to the characters".
|
|
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 45% approval rating and an average rating of 5.57/10 based on 187 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has a story worth telling, but it deserves better than the treacly and pretentious treatment director Stephen Daldry gives it." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 46 based on 41 reviews. Critics were sharply divided about the subject matter of the film.
|
|
Defying Gravity has received had positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 68% based on reviews from 6 critics. On Metacritic it has a score of 45 out of 100, based on 7 reviews. Lawrence Van Gelder from The New York Times on 9 July 1999 stated the movie "plods along, never catching dramatic fire, sometimes suffering from amateurish acting and often relying on its intrusive and treacly music to impart mood and rhythm" and "good intentions don't necessarily make good drama".
|
|
For example, 'Edge of the Night' over-reaches, trying too hard to be a party anthem but ending up sounding like a Peter Andre out take." The publication also acknowledged that "for every misfire there's a banger to ignite the party", saying "'Castaways' and 'Sorry' show genuine pop smarts" and "'We Belong' and 'Live for You' showcase Amy Sheppard's powerful vocal, which is perhaps underutilised." Mikey Cahill from the Herald Sun said "They ply feel-good, treacly jams that will turn your stomach. Their aim: to serve up inoffensive party pop.
|
|
The film received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 42% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Doctor Dolittle finds some mirth in the novelty of wisecracking critters, but this family feature's treacly tone is made queasy by a reliance on scatological gags that undercut the intended warmth." Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 46 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
|
|
He praised not only the art and music, but especially the voice acting, which he felt was perfect for the final scene. Lindsay Nelson at Midnight Eye compared the film to Whisper of the Heart by Studio Ghibli for its poetic use of "seemingly bland and uninteresting locations". She was impressed with both the sound and art, and particularly the sweeping view of the Docomo tower with the sunset in the background. However, she criticized it for its "tearfully over-the-top climax", "treacly" pop theme song, and lack of reflective silence.
|
|
Yes! Yes! Yes!" Music & Media called the song a "hyper-kinetic rhythm topped off by a killer hook that's part of your system before you realise it." Neil Strauss from The New York Times commented that "Beautiful Life" is "pure treacly pleasure, with bubbling keyboards and a fast, chirpy rhythm that will inspire most listeners to forget that the 70's ever ended and accept the chorus -- "It's a beautiful life"—for one night of disco-era hedonism." Bob Waliszewski of Plugged In said it is "a joyful admonition to hang tough when times get hard.
|
|
He described the game as "more playful than instructive" and "more of a toy than a textbook", making it a suitable first video game for his two-year-old daughter. Webster thought the gameplay was "charming and intuitive" and "fun ... to watch". Evan Narcisse of Kotaku similarly wrote that the game was the first his four-year-old was allowed to play alone. He noted that she struggled with games like Cut the Rope and Where's My Water, and thought that a game like Flower or Hohokum would be her first, but found Metamorphabet to be sufficiently magical in that it inspired curiosity without being "overly earnest or treacly".
|
|
In July 2005 Monteith resigned though as the Finance Spokesperson, stating that he wanted the freedom to discuss policy matters that "cut across other policy portfolios". Later that year the Scottish Conservative Party withdrew the whip from Monteith when it emerged that he had been briefing the media against the then Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie regarding questions over McLetchie's £11,500 of claims for taxi expenses.Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland), 6 November 2005 In 2006 Monteith announced he would not stand again as an MSP, saying he "would rather return to commerce than be a one-man band swimming against the treacly tide of collectivism in the Scottish Parliament".
|
|
The daughter of Sir Watkyn Bassett and the cousin of Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, Madeline has golden hair, a treacly voice, a tinkling, silvery laugh and when she sighs, it sounds "like the wind going out of a rubber duck".Garrison (1991), p. 10.Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 10, p. 112. Bertie Wooster describes her in Right Ho, Jeeves as "a pretty enough girl in a droopy, blonde, saucer-eyed way but not the sort of breath-taker that takes the breath", though elsewhere he describes her as "physically in the pin-up class".Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 1, p. 19.Wodehouse (2008) [1971], Much Obliged Jeeves, chapter 1, p. 9.
|
|
Later, while visiting a museum, the author comes across a reference to the Chaucha. The narrator realizes that the Chaucha are actually the Tcho-Tcho, which he had previously thought to be a fictional construct of Lovecraft. Slowly, the narrator becomes threatened by a being (possibly an avatar of Nyarlathotep) the Tcho-Tcho worship: a black, fish-like humanoid demon called the Shugoran (roughly "Questing Man") with an appendage that resembles a horn attached to its face. There are implications that the Tcho-Tcho have a practice of growing something within human bodies, a practice which results in the narrator's brush with a Malaysian on the airplane leaving a treacly smell on his clothing.
|
|
Dan Milliken of Country Universe.net gave the song a C rating, and said this in his review of the song that the band "is another three-piece boy band who sound like they paid a lot of attention to 80’s pop-rock and care deeply about the inner yearnings of suburban girls between the ages of 11 and 17." Juli Thanki of Engine 145 gave it a thumbs-down, saying that the band "combine[s] the adult contemporary pop of 'Iris' era Goo Goo Dolls and the treacly sentiment featured in your average Rascal Flatts song with the nonthreatening cuteness of the Jonas Brothers." She also thought that the lead vocals lacked grit in comparison to the song's theme of running away.
|
|
In its initial airing, the episode had "unprecedented strong numbers" with a Nielsen rating of 11.2/17 in homes and 9.6/23 in adults 18–49. The Futurama premiere was watched by more people than either its lead-in show (The Simpsons) or the show following it (The X-Files), and it was the number one show among men aged 18–49 and teenagers for the week. In a review by Patrick Lee in Science Fiction Weekly based on a viewing of this episode alone, Futurama was deemed not as funny as The Simpsons, particularly as "the satire is leavened with treacly sentimental bits about free will and loneliness". The episode was rated as an "A- pick" and found to "warrant further viewing" despite these concerns.
|
|
In contrast, scholar Augie Fleras wrote in 2006 that she found the book "slow", and said that it often romanticized and even stereotyped Ishi, occasionally "[lapsing] into a treacly sentimentality". A 2013 biography of Kroeber again praised her writing, saying that she had a talent for "making us part of a life we never took part in, of allowing our presence where we never were, of raising up a gone world." Elsasser praised the book again in a 1979 obituary for Kroeber, calling Ishi in Two Worlds the most widely read book about a Native American subject, and said it was a "beautifully written story" that was "evocative of Yahi culture". Another obituary stated that Ishi in Two Worlds had probably been read by more people than had ever read Alfred Kroeber's works.
|
|
"Miss Independent" received mixed to positive reviews from music critics, who lauded Clarkson for distancing herself from her American Idol persona, but criticized the song's resemblance to some of the songs on Stripped— particularly "Dirrty" and "Fighter" (2002). Upon its release, Brian Hiatt of Entertainment Weekly noted that "its hard R&B; sound may shock fans who embraced the mellow 'A Moment Like This'. 'Miss Independent' begins with Clarkson singing in a throaty moan over a bangin' hip-hop beat, then bursts into a power-chord-propelled, disco-diva chorus that's not unlike Britney Spears' 'Stronger'". Rolling Stone wrote, "'A Moment Like This'was exactly the sort of treacly by-the-numbers ballad critics expected of a TV-contest winner; that's probably why its assertive follow-up, 'Miss Independent', was such a surprise".
|
|
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 45% based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 5.28/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Diminished by uneven animation and treacly songs, Quest for Camelot is an adventure that ought to be tossed back to the Lady in the Lake." Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+ on scale of A to F. Owen Gleiberman, reviewing for Entertainment Weekly, wrote, "The images are playful and serviceably lush, but the story and characters might have come out of a screenwriting software program, and the songs (sung by Celine Dion and Steve Perry, among others) are Vegas-pop wallpaper." David Kronke of the Los Angeles Times described the film as "formulaic" and wrote that it was "a nearly perfect reflection of troubling trends in animated features".
|
|
Homebrewing malt extracts: liquid in a can and spray dried Barley malt syrup being slowly added to flour in a bagel recipe Malt extract, also known as extract of malt, is a sweet, treacly substance used as a dietary supplement. It was popular in the first half of the 20th century as a nutritional enhancer for the children of the British urban working class, whose diet was often deficient in vitamins and minerals. Children were given cod liver oil for the same reason, but it proved so unpalatable that it was combined with extract of malt to produce "Malt and Cod-Liver Oil." The 1907 British Pharmaceutical Codex's instructions for making nutritional extract of malt do not include a mashout at the end of extraction, and include the use of lower mash temperatures than is typical with modern beer-brewing practices.
|
|
Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times commented that it was a "derivative, self satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple- minded if it tried". One exception to this was Roger Ebert, who awarded the film three and a half stars and praised the film and its ideals: It flies the flag in honor of our World War II heroes, and evokes nostalgia for small-town movie palaces and the people who run them... Frank Darabont has deliberately tried to make the kind of movie Capra made, about decent small-town folks standing up for traditional American values. In an age of Rambo patriotism, it is good to be reminded of Capra patriotism - to remember that America is not just about fighting and winning, but about defending our freedoms. Ebert also praised Carrey's performance stating that he "has never been better or more likable".
|
|
Emmich's debut novel, The Reminders, was published by Little Brown in the US and Canada in 2017 as well as in the U.K. (Picador), Denmark (Politikens), China (Horizon), France (Mosaic), Israel (Kinneret), Italy (Piemme), Germany (Droemer), Brazil (Intrinseca), and Holland (Ambo Anthos). It is currently being developed as a film. The Reminders was well-reviewed and received mostly praise by critics. Popsugar called the book “Beautiful and beguiling, a story that will stay with you long after you finish reading it.” The Star-Ledger said it was “A lovely debut novel exploring the bonds of friendship....enchanting....definitely worthy of being remembered.” In the National Book Review, "The Reminders" was deemed “A charming debut novel....Like Nick Hornby, Emmich has a knack for avoiding the treacly and saccharine while finding magic in unlikely relationships.” The novel was included in the best-of lists of Harper's BAZAAR, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, AM New York, and HELLO! Canada. On May 28, 2017, Emmich appeared on NPR's "Weekend Edition" to discuss the book with host Lulu Garcia- Navarro.
|
|
By October 1960, Time magazine was calling This Is Your Life "the most sickeningly sentimental show on the air"; it cited a May 1960 episode on "Queens housewife and mother" Elizabeth Hahn as evidence that the show had "run through every faded actress still able to cry on cue" and had instead "turned to ordinary people as subjects for its weekly, treacly 'true- to-life' biographies." The episode on Hahn was also cited as an example of the limited research that the show was doing on its guests. The show had presented Hahn as "devoted to her husband and so dedicated to her children that she had worked as a chambermaid, waitress and cook to further their education and keep them off the streets", ignoring details such as that Hahn, on the advice of her rabbi, had brought her daughter into a magistrate's court as a delinquent, and that before the episode was broadcast, Hahn's husband had sued her for divorce. Virginia Graham, in her autobiography, noted that the show had been characterized as a maudlin invasion of privacy.
|
|