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But as someone who, alas, had to compose one of those formulaic Times death notices, let me provide a bit of explanation.
He has said many things that I wouldn't try to defend, and that I doubt Bill Bradley would want to defend either, such as his formulaic, p.c.
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."
Nossiter's script about an affair between a homeless man (David Suchet) and a woman (Lisa Harrow) who mistakes him for a British filmmaker is called "elegant" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ), and Suchet is said to give "a virtuoso turn" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Stephen Holden calls the film a formulaic, "overly schematic exercise in cinematic hide-and-seek."
After an hour, I thought that Never Been Kissed might be the most fun teenpic since Clueless , but ultimately the movie takes too many shortcuts even on its own dumb, formulaic terms, and it can't make up its mind whether it wants to pander to teen-age fantasies of good looks and popularity or to scold teen-agers for being so shallow.