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That vapid, sentimentalizing declaration about Jane's ride is typical of the flaccid style she now favors, and what it says proves true: The novel is all anticlimax.
Kaufman and Jonze end up sentimentalizing the longing for a collective consciousness in a way I found creepy: Do they mean to be retelling Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the body-snatchers' point of view?
At times, Duvall seemed to be sentimentalizing the gypsies; at others, he seemed to be rubbing our noses in their ugliness and duplicity--or was that just my racism?
Director John Singleton ( Boyz N the Hood ) is accused of sentimentalizing his subject and resorting to action-film banalities--"a sorry assortment of dramatic and visual clichés that were retired from service, or should have been, decades ago," says the Wall Street Journal 's Morgenstern.