weepie
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of weepie
Example Sentences
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He noted how there were "giant laughs for Hugh Grant" but that the "weepie sequel is strangely dazed".
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025
That movie was, for me, the year’s best, a sublime ghost story in which a parent-child weepie and an achingly tender romance are layered into a kind of metaphysical mille-feuille.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023
This may be news to the three adults at the center of Jared Moshé’s film “Aporia,” a deeply silly time-travel weepie buoyed solely by the soapy warmth of its performances.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2023
The first film is a weepie, co-scripted by David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage, based on Michael Ausiello’s hilarious, heartbreaking 2018 memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022
This struggle tortures Cameron, and Ali is good at conveying it, but “Swan Song” is more of a philosophical weepie than a thriller.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2021
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