Azazel Jacobs directed this maudlin yet feel-nothing feature, which risks giving independent filmmaking a bad name.

NEWYORKER: Momma's Man

It was her vanity that disgusted me, the way she undercut the confession with a preening, maudlin joke.

NEWYORKER: The Other Place

Sometimes it doesn't work, as in the maudlin "Please Don't Call It Love, " with its weepy, sleepy violin.

NPR: Fiction Family Debut Is Delicate And Industrious

It all had a very ironic pop sensibility or was very maudlin.

WSJ: Phoenix: That Rare Export, Pop Music From France

Filming on location in California, Lupino turns the potentially maudlin material into a searing, deep, trenchantly mature study in the dissolution of a personality.

NEWYORKER: The Young Lovers

This turbulent and grim family melodrama, from 1957, is steered away from the maudlin and given emotional depth and philosophical heft under the direction of Yasujiro Ozu.

NEWYORKER: Tokyo Twilight

"She was also under pressure to ask her husband back to the house for Christmas dinner and all of that was making him more and more maudlin and anxious, " he said.

BBC: Perth Sheriff Court