The studio system - designed to crank out formulaic films quickly and cheaply and to give film studios almost absolute power over contract players and other creative people - began to decline during that era.

Such restrictive aesthetic policies, enforced by the rigorous censorship apparatus of Soyuzkino, resulted in a number of formulaic and doctrinaire films.

The scene offers one of the few hints that everyone involved knows exactly how predictable and formulaic the film is.

Most everyone agrees, calling the film formulaic and the gore overly mannered.

AGES 3-8 - A formulaic, often coarse film has none of the quirky charm of the Seuss original, but children will find that no deterrence.

The success of G.I. Blues may have ironically been the catalyst for the formulaic films that Presley was to make for much of the 1960s.

Watching this mildly engaging, formulaic film, you can imagine how it was pitched as a can't-miss early 90's fusion of "Nashville" and "Urban Cowboy," with a sure-fire soundtrack album tie-in.

Kevin Crust of the Los Angeles Times called the film "superficial and formulaic but pleasant enough to entertain and qualifies as intelligent and sophisticated by the current standard of Hollywood comedy."

Beautifully acted but formulaic films like Walk on the Moon suggest we could use a fallow period, a year or two to regroup and think up fresh stories about attraction and trust.

Memories of the cinema's grand past outshone most of the formulaic or marginalized films that were shown here.