"The real problem with A Nightmare on Elm Street is: it's really unbelievably dull," writes Film 4's Ali Catterall.
The French novelist Stendhal was appointed consul there in 1831 and, although he found the city dull, wrote much there during the next decade.
More hostile still was Alonso Duralde, writing for The Wrap, under the headline: "How Many Flappers Make a Flop?" "The cardinal sin of this new 'Gatsby' is that it's dull," wrote Duralde, who concluded that it marked "the official moment in which Baz Luhrmann's signature style has become self-parody".
Getting people in and out of rooms must surely be one of the novelist's most irksome tasks: dull to write, dull to read, impossible to dispense with but perversely tricky to make lifelike.
Strong on narrative action but at times weak on logic, "it is never dull," Sayers wrote.
Cassius Clay' isn't dull," Roger Greenspun wrote in The New York Times.
"The newspapers of Utopia . . . would be terribly dull," he wrote in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Though Alcott thought it dull to write and read, Little Women is never cynical, always an honest commercial sell.
I've never seen an episode of the show that featured a dull, poorly written, or substandard book.
Winterbottom invents a patchy, dull, scrappily written drama about a film director (Daniel Brühl) in Siena to develop a fictional movie project about a similar case.
