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

So perhaps it's inevitable that when, after years of searching for the right project for her directorial debut, she gravitated to novelist Renee Carlino's wry tearjerker, "Wish You Were Here."

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

Haigh’s work does for me what the filmmaker says a torch song or a tearjerker does for him: “That is the thing that makes me feel less alone,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

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