The film is almost totally schematic and this weakens it.
The music was both schematic and full of rough joy.
But the telling often feels schematic, and the action feels distilled rather than lived.
Ellroy's characterization sometimes comes across as schematic, and much of the psychologizing here doesn't convince.
Stagey, schematic and verbose, "Up Tight" has all the flaws of Dassin's social noirs.
One was professional soldiers, who were prone to become schematic and unimaginative politicians.
I'm tempted to say that it still seems, in many ways, "stereotyped, schematic, and simplistic".
The dramatic situations and characters are too schematic, and too much strains credulity (2 00).
Unfortunately, the film is also schematic and filled with baldly declamatory lines delivered by a hit-and-miss ensemble.
When I first saw Skylight, I thought it schematic and too skewed in favour of the woman.
I personally found it a little schematic and inferior (though similar) to his earlier film: I Wish.
