Work that isn't honest _ in particular, work that falsifies and sentimentalizes the experience of childhood _ is beyond icky.
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His point was that it sentimentalizes the Holocaust by the scene at the end where the survivors all gather around in the cemetery.
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Yet Hoffman never sentimentalizes the sad and pasty ways of a true misfit in a film that might have misfired had anyone else starred.
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Subhash Jha of Bollywood Hungama commented on it, stating, " The film never belittles or sentimentalizes the characters'lack of choices.
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This sort of awful purple prose simply sentimentalizes the subject of Vietnam; it does not speak half as eloquently as the unvarnished and highly damning public record.
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This is no us-against-them celebration of mob busting, but a morally ambiguous examination of tangled loyalties that sentimentalizes neither the Feds nor the felons.
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Commentators love to compare the Pushkin and Tchaikovsky " Queen of Spades, " almost invariably concluding that the opera " sentimentalizes " the short story.
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But too often, the film sentimentalizes events : the townspeople of Oswego, where the refugee camp was, first reject the Jews but inevitably come to embrace them.
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But it sentimentalizes and glamorizes Malcolm McDowell's sadistic thug by making his traditional violence seem somehow more human than the government-ordered lobotomies in place to stop it.
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In truth, director Carl Forsman's production domesticates and slightly sentimentalizes Ionesco's corrosive vision, generating plenty of silly humor but failing to penetrate to the play's icy core.
