For a movie that sentimentalizes the idea of getting your act together and starting over (with a little help from an attentive millennial who can probably go all night), Home Again hardly inspires.

TCD Blogger Mark Metcalf draws comparisons between films that make villains and heroes out of the human experience.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig sentimentalizes the feminist revolt that benefited from Obama’s 2016 airlift of a $400 million palette of cash to Iran.

Negrophiles and educated Negroes may object that Author Bradford simplifies too much, sentimentalizes too often, but plain readers like his stories.

DuVernay (who is 51) sentimentalizes “public intellectual” Wilkerson (who is 63). Actress Ellis-Taylor (who is 54) combines middle-aged intrepidness and self-pity into a defensive demeanor.

And so every female sentimentalizes and demands they be carried on head like a princess, but hates a male who loves and desires them. (If you desire power, she gets it, if you desire her, she gets ...

Linda Hirshman. (Amy Pearl / WNYC) My friend Linda Hirshman, a powerhouse feminist intellectual, died on October 31. For the last podcast of the year, I wanted to remember Linda, who was a ...

Few holiday films are as beloved or iconic as Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. The 1946 film, which sentimentalizes small-town life, follows a man named George Bailey who is contemplating suicide ...

Spanish director Pilar Palomero's 'La Maternal' is a sharply authentic story of a 14-year-old tearaway facing an unexpected pregnancy that makes the likes of 'Juno' look, well, juvenile.

Never mind the means. The narrative spills the beans with confidence. Janhvi Kapoor plays the titular role of a Bihari girl in Punjabi who makes a living working at a massage parlour. She is neither a ...