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This kind of gory caper teeters on formulaic.

And even a film that could easily be quite formulaic is not at all.

Do you think music biopics had become too formulaic?

The goal was identifying the moments that viewers expect from Hallmark’s pleasingly formulaic programming — the apology, the kiss under the mistletoe — and finding a way to “gamify” them, Bennett says.

Movies and TV are dominated by genre storytelling held together by formulaic writing that forgoes character development, mood setting and creative plotting.