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Without being mawkish, I think one can say that Susan Faludi reached beyond her role as a feminist, or even as a writer.
Critics complain that this is a "mawkish tale ...
It's a little Celebration, its mawkish marketing and sentimental architecture direct descendants of Celebration and Seaside, Fla.
And if he sometimes wandered into whimsy--that alluring comic swamp--and even farther, into mawkish sentimentality with "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy," he more often executed that most difficult comic turn, being simultaneously funny and sweet.
Near-unanimity on the verdict: Actor-director Kevin Costner's latest is "truly awful" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). The post-apocalyptic Western about a band of mailmen who save the United States is faulted for its ridiculous premise, mawkish dialogue, and megalomaniacal directing, among other things.