tearjerker
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Written and recorded over three weeks in late 2023, Who Believes In Angels? has received rave reviews from critics, who have called it "a gutsy, flamboyant tearjerker" and a "late-career high".
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
She has no children or partner, but this is not some clichéd tearjerker in which our protagonist must fill the hole in herself with a baby or a lover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
For too long the story was treated as a narrative template, giving rise to less skilled imitators, self-conscious correctives and even the occasional Oscar-winning abomination, like Taika Waititi’s Hitler-satirizing, audience-infantilizing tearjerker “Jojo Rabbit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
In the series, Mazin and Druckmann create a romantic backstory for the two characters, creating one of the series’ most talked about tearjerker episodes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Quite the tearjerker, coming from some old Western writer.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2023
Unlike Douglas Sirk’s beautifully photographed Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, or the subgenre’s more narratively contemplative, weepy entries from the late ’70s, the new guard of romantic tearjerkers doesn’t have a pronounced stylistic draw.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
He’s always been a gearhead, devoted to celluloid and sprocket holes, but his best movies are also sentimental as hell—big, sloppy tearjerkers wrapped inside clockwork thrillers.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020
“Wonder” and “Wonderstruck” were easily confused, both being family-friendly tearjerkers, but no one was going to forget one of the best-selling, most satisfying movies of the year: “Wonder Woman.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2018
In “Mostly Sondheim,” her critically acclaimed revue of songs by the composer, the singer interspersed his own compositions with numbers he admires - everything from Harold Arlen tearjerkers to the earthy, jazz-flecked “Hard-Hearted Hannah.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2017
Therefore this list doesn’t feature Robson and Jerome or Renée and Renato – it’s not a pure list of poignant tearjerkers.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2017
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