Word: tedium
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Stella keeps the plot alive as long as it allows her to live. But her naturally high voltage and low taste in friends apparently mark her from the beginning as the victim of a crime of passion. When she is rubbed out, tedium sets in. The scene finally gets so crowded with suspicious-looking people that by the time the villain is led away to jail you have the feeling that far too many untrustworthy characters are still lurking about on the wrong side of the bars...
While in occasional scenes "A Royal Scandal" reaches a pinnacle of Hollywood humor, those who take no great joy in such oft repeated lines as Miss Bankhead's snappy "Shut up!" will find more of tedium in it than delight...
...paper, and getting that idea across, without mentioning names, involves throwing around a lot of loose (and slow) talk about what we're fighting for. In addition, there's the problem of showing how technical and complicated are the tasks faced by over-aged destroyers. All this leads to tedium, though it's certainly kept down to a minimum--nothing like "Decision" or "The Searching Wind...
...Williamsburg, there is a great opportunity for characterization at the happy expense of the narrative force which the cinema more often emphasizes. Peggy Ann Garner and Ted Donaldson come through with character jobs as Francie and Neeley that without a doubt redeem any of the picture's tedium...
...TIME, Dec. 11), is now working on the second. His style is breezy, formless, effective. Like Sinclair Lewis' books, Lower than Angels is remarkable for its accumulation of commonplace social history, and for its unsparing honesty. It is sometimes little more than a catalogue of impressions, saved from tedium and pretentiousness by Karig's humor. Marvin Lang has all the characteristics of Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt, he has a mean streak, especially in his relations with women. His life is actually harsher than Babbitt's was. But his enjoyment...