"There are, once again, too many busy, uninterestingly staged battles," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
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" Seven months later, Nixon decides (not uninterestingly) "that the major effect of the youth revolution is its effect on parents and their guilt complexes.
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Just a short cab ride or 15-minute walk away is the Museum of Contemporary Art and also the John Hancock Center (now, uninterestingly called 875 North Michigan Avenue).
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But Kechiche's fetishization of the female body here is as tedious as it is insulting, and the actual filmmaking is flat-out bad; it's uninterestingly, unproductively ugly, boring and repetitive.
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Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell are incredible movie and TV stars in their own right, but no amount of star power could overcome what was ultimately seen as an uninterestingly told story.
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But he doesn't always know his A material from his B, or doesn't care; his jokes can be uninterestingly glib with tiny, bloodless pricks that are less about challenging the audience than about obscuring the material's clichés and overriding theatricality.
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Chekhov and Hawthorne used the weed as a symbol in their fiction, Malcolm's knowledge showcasing not her smarts but the contrast the paragraph is built to deliver: the gloom that has, in another wonderful Malcolm word, adhered to the plant — its reduction to symbolism in literature; its misrepresentation as uninterestingly ugly — which is, to Malcolm, an error, a wrong.
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She died on 2 November 1961 in Oslo. Bosse always guarded her privacy, so much so that the memoir she wrote of her life with Strindberg was deemed to be too uninterestingly discreet to be publishable.Waal, 191–92.
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""'Helen of Troy' with Rossana Podesta, Jack Sernas and Sir Cedric Hardwicke". Harrison's Reports. December 24, 1955. 206. The Monthly Film Bulletin found the film "uninterestingly dialogued and characterised ... The battle scenes, however, are vigorously and sometimes excitingly staged.
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Understanding Law in Micronesia notes that The Federated States of Micronesia's laws and legal institutions are "uninterestingly similar to [those of Western countries]". However, it explains that "law in Micronesia is an extraordinary flux and flow of contrasting thought and meaning, inside and outside the legal system". It says that a knee-jerk reaction would be that law is disarrayed in the region and that improvement is required, but argues that the failure is "one endemic to the nature of law or to the ideological views we hold about law". The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a United Nations Trusteeship administered by the United States, borrowed heavily from United States law in establishing the Trust Territory Code during the Law and Development movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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" Negative reviews focused on the film's ostensible preference of style over substance, with Slant Magazines Nick McCarthy giving the film a score of 2.5 out of 4, pointing out that "director David Lowery, with the aide of Bradford Young's sublime cinematography, goes to great lengths to stylistically evoke the emotionally complex nature of the characters' forlornness, but the film's highly calculated beauty suffocates rather than elevates the story's emotional underpinnings." He also questioned the portrayal of motherhood in the film, accusing Mara's character of being "uninterestingly flattened into a waiting damsel in distress." A. O. Scott of The New York Times, in a negative review of the movie, wrote that "Authenticity is rarely a fair standard for judging movies, which always depend on overt and invisible artifice. But this film's longing for just that quality—for a simple, elemental truth that will be both specific to its time and place and ripe with deeper meanings—is precisely what makes it unconvincing.
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