Columnist Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle professed that the film was "a sentimental drama about fathers and sons and the emotional distances between them.

Falling Skies revisits the American Revolution as Boston patriots resist the invasion of a powerful army of aliens in this sentimental but provocative sci-fi drama.

It is not a comedy but a sentimental drama full of pathos, and in it, Rossini was looking for something new.

Halliwell's Film and Video Guide describes the film as a "sentimental drama with music; not for the critical."

With the fine music and the sentimental drama of the events, it was, in its way, more entertaining than a traveling vaudeville production.

Produced by state-run studios that are more appendages of an outdated socialist system than creators of entertainment, most Chinese movies are dreary, sentimental dramas or predictable kung-fu flicks.

It's a square, sentimental drama that satisfies, as comfort food often can.

In her second Telugu project, the sentimental drama Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana, she starred alongside Siddharth.

Indeed, the vast majority of Korean films are romantic comedies and sentimental dramas.

Between 1784 and 1805 she had nineteen of her comedies, sentimental dramas, and farces (many of which were translations from the French) performed at London theatres.