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One dissenter, the New York Times ' Janet Maslin, chides the film's political correctness and bland score: "the most inert and formulaic of recent Disney animated films."
"Stale macho jokes and formulaic cliffhangers drive this chase-by-numbers thriller on the bumpy road to nowhere" (Holden, the New York Times ).
The musical descriptions in Miller's book strike me as flat and formulaic, as in: "An up-tempo rocker built around a boogie riff and a dramatically unconventional modulation between major and minor keys, 'Hold Me Tight' was written in one style alone--that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney."
The challenge is in applying a formulaic approach to a heavily context-sensitive sorting problem.
Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as "yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick."