It grows tedious when pedophile priests and loathsome politicians are conveniently dismissed as Satanic, even as they spew biblical verse and prostrate themselves before the cross, recruiting the Christian faithful.
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Langdon gradually gets caught up regarding what he missed via distorted flashbacks and images, a device that grows tedious rather quickly, and subjects the audience to a lot of quick editing cuts and dissonance.
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As in Nicolas Philibert's similar French documentary "To Be and to Have" (2002), the relative absence of conflict in the interactions between a seasoned teacher and wonderful pupils grows tedious at feature length, and there is — presumably by design — relatively little meat on this documentary's bones.
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The play's dozen characters are well-drawn, although Mr. Stone is much better at providing their back stories than at propelling the plot forward, and his play grows tedious after intermission — until a spectacularly blood-soaked finale which rivals Luca Guadagnino's new film "Suspiria" in its depiction of unbridled female fury.
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74, no. 430, 1939, pp. 43–44., subscription required Kenneth Clark thought that "an artist as skilful as Hobbema grows tedious, because the elaboratedly described trees in his woodland scenes are not subordinated to a general principle of light".Clark, Kenneth, Landscape into Art, 45-46, orig.
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Based on 12 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 33% approval rating from critics, with an average score of 4.84/10. Caryn James of The New York Times praised the sequel as "far better than The Return of Jafar", but acknowledged that "the video has some other weak spots, but these hardly matter when Aladdin and the King of Thieves is so brimming with comic invention and adventure." Scott Blakey of the Chicago Tribune wrote that the story grows tedious after an hour and recommended The Fool and the Flying Ship instead.
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In 2000, SF Weekly columnist Dan Strachota wrote that "Arnold's writing usually contains three main items: fuzzy data, oversimplification, and half-assed reasoning," stating that her interest in music ended in 1994, coinciding with Kurt Cobain's suicide." In 1993, her book Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana was published by Bloomsbury Press; in 1997, St. Martin's Press published Kiss This: Punk In The Present Tense. Both books were controversial, and Kiss This received negative reviews, with Publishers Weekly writing that when her "informal, personal style" was "applied to larger topics about the cultural relevance of punk, for instance, Arnold's careless prose grows tedious. If not for Arnold's access to such famous rockers as Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, her book would be overwhelmed by her incoherent, self-contradictory arguments for and against contemporary punk.
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