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...rosy sentimentalist was also a fretful conservative; he backed Joe McCarthy's search for imaginary communists in the State Department. But sometimes he just got fed up, reversing himself on the Vietnam War, telling Richard Nixon, "Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong." In 2005 he suggested that the U.S. should have used nuclear weapons in both Iraq and Afghanistan; yet as casualties mounted in Iraq, he showed impatience, frustration, a hint that he felt betrayed by the policy he'd supported...
...answer is ingenious and unsettling, which is just fine in an anarcho-sentimentalist comedy. But much of the raillery in Step Brothers seems lazy or desperate. The Ferrell character lacks the goofy appeal of Ricky Bobby or the skater in Blades of Glory. And I'll take the comedy stylings of Jon Heder over Reilly's drabber improvisations any day. (Reilly was way funnier with Ferrell and Jon Stewart on The Daily Show Tuesday night than he is here.) Finally, Ferrell, the Hollywood star most notorious for going naked in his movies, shows off only his belly, and that...
...Pieces of April”) tells her husband Harry (Chris Cooper, “American Beauty”) that “love is sex.” Pat and Harry are a middle-aged couple in a rut living in the 1940s. Unlike his wife, Harry is a sentimentalist who has loftier notions of love. He tells his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan, “Die Another Day”), “I always dreamed of a woman being truly in love with me.” This difference of opinion, which could have been wonderfully humorous...
...dilemma. It’s easy to have conflicting opinions about “Cassadaga.” At one moment, Oberst seems to be an immensely thoughtful songwriter addressing urgent issues of modern life. But at the next, he seems to be just another young sentimentalist who wants to say anything and everything at once. Maybe Oberst’s fragile voice, big watery eyes, and quotidian poetry make us doubt the legitimacy of his existential dilemmas. But when he’s so darned likeable, why question...
LIKE RED ON A ROSE ALAN JACKSON An all-baladalbum from a chronic sentimentalist is the reason a music critic needs a thesaurus. (Did you know there are at least 40 synonyms for corny?) But Jackson is a sentimentalist with a minimalist's taste in lyrics, so tracks like The Firefly's Song ("I don't want you like I used to/ This old man wants you more") feel honest, especially when sung in his regal baritone. Fellow minimalist Alison Krauss produces, and bans take-it-up-a-notch! key changes and swollen strings. What's left is something...