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Sari pursues her kid while a pair of crooks, played by O’Shea Jackson Jr. and a weepie, recently divorced Alden Ehrenreich, try to hunt down the scatterings of cocaine in the woods; their boss, Ray Liotta, has a lot on the line with that payload.
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K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
One of them is among the most beloved spectacles Hollywood ever bankrolled, James Cameron's disaster-weepie for the ages, Titanic.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
The chief difference, as the title and opening scene indicate, is the outcome of the illness, pushing the new movie further into traditional weepie territory, a move acknowledged with a winking nod to Terms of Endearment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2022
Based on Adam Makos' nonfiction book about the friendship between two U.S. fighter pilots—one of them the Navy's first Black aviator—the film even throws in elements of the male weepie for good measure.
—Tim Grierson, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
For most of their runs, the NBC weepie and ABC family sitcom kept network programming on the Emmys radar.
—Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
Finch is, by design, a road movie, a robot’s coming-of-age tale, an ecological cautionary tale, a sci-fi weepie, Cast Away: The End-Times Edition, and a two-hander drama, with one of said hands being metal.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
At the Oscars in 1980, Henry became the youngest nominee in any category after receiving a nod for best supporting actor for his role as a cherubic child torn between his divorcing parents (Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep) in Robert Benton’s weepie.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2021
Although based on a real story, this new movie can’t help but traffic in the same sort of earnest schmaltz that made that 1970 Oscar winner such a crowd-pleasing weepie.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
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K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
One of them is among the most beloved spectacles Hollywood ever bankrolled, James Cameron's disaster-weepie for the ages, Titanic.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
The chief difference, as the title and opening scene indicate, is the outcome of the illness, pushing the new movie further into traditional weepie territory, a move acknowledged with a winking nod to Terms of Endearment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2022
Based on Adam Makos' nonfiction book about the friendship between two U.S. fighter pilots—one of them the Navy's first Black aviator—the film even throws in elements of the male weepie for good measure.
—Tim Grierson, Chron, 21 Nov. 2022
For most of their runs, the NBC weepie and ABC family sitcom kept network programming on the Emmys radar.
—Inkoo Kang, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
Finch is, by design, a road movie, a robot’s coming-of-age tale, an ecological cautionary tale, a sci-fi weepie, Cast Away: The End-Times Edition, and a two-hander drama, with one of said hands being metal.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
At the Oscars in 1980, Henry became the youngest nominee in any category after receiving a nod for best supporting actor for his role as a cherubic child torn between his divorcing parents (Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep) in Robert Benton’s weepie.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2021
Although based on a real story, this new movie can’t help but traffic in the same sort of earnest schmaltz that made that 1970 Oscar winner such a crowd-pleasing weepie.
—Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
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“Weepie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weepie. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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