Takal coaxes melodrama from first-person naturalism and smartly blends the allure of genre with do-it-yourself intimacy.
Real-world political melodrama, with obvious good and bad guys, but intelligent and well acted.
How do the best writers convey grief without alienating the reader or lapsing into melodrama?
Horror posters have a strong cult following, and are often irresistible in their melodrama.
The melodrama opens on a lighthearted note, but Ms. Serreau leaps in with fairly ham-fisted farce.
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Uh, oh, you may think at that point, we're in for some earnest melodrama.
But it took another twenty years for Hollywood to inject romantic melodrama into the story.
Because, and forgive the melodrama of this, we feel that the world is in a dire state.
By castigating the press, the campaign was able to broadcast the family melodrama in a self-righteous manner.
Great melodrama, and it satisfies the public's need for a villain to blame for the turmoil of the 1980s.
You feel yourself gripped by a beautiful machine, engineered for the finest melodrama.
In the case of "Da Vinci, " audience members laughed at some of the film's dialogue and ridiculed its melodrama.
In this sluggish, portentous melodrama, the director Andrei Zvyagintsev highlights critical inequities in Russian society and in one marriage.
And the movie hits a bad bump when it weds the celebration of a free spirit to anti-sexist melodrama.
Within the modernistically shattered framework of conventional melodrama, Philippe Garrel conveys an extravagant, heartfelt blend of tenderness, pain, and longing.
Just as an ambitious teen show features interesting parents, a truly effective melodrama gives us villains with sad, complicated hearts.
Mixing social messages with melodrama requires skill from the writers, says Acosta-Alzuru, who has studied telenovelas for over a decade.
As a portrait of Bush, we never get more than a slightly underwhelming "my dad never really loved me", father-son melodrama.
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Yet the project of draining the melodrama from Revelation may scant some significant things even as it draws attention to others.
His hand slips only toward the end, where the sense of melodrama, rising like a flood, brims over into the ludicrous.
This inner-city crime melodrama, set in Watts, is a speedy, violent, adolescent-cynical take on the no-hope lives of young black men.
It includes a rarely heard melodrama by Ullmann, written during his internment.
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But India's new money has an appeal even its melodrama cannot match.
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In this feverishly romantic, visually resplendent war-at-home melodrama, from 1946, Edgar G.
Set against the political repression and violence of the 1970s and 1980s, the story has something of a Turkish film melodrama about it.
By calling Education Secretary Bennett a liar, NYU's Brademas is playing his chosen role in the latest act of the Great American Education Melodrama.
And the fate of Matthew, the middle-class heir to Downton, has the sweep of the best melodrama helped along by the elegant performance of Dan Stevens.
But their film is caught between stylized protest and messagey melodrama.
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