It received praise in certain areas such as its action sequences, but the film's lack of humor, emotional subtlety and character development drew the most criticism.

Grief, loss, brutality and victimization are so prominent here that they crowd out emotional subtlety.

Shifting, shimmering mini-scores wracked with emotional subtlety and unexpected warmth.

The pace slows down only when the author attempts to deal with a complex relationship;he has no feelings for emotional subtleties; sentence fragments grate.

That this uncomplicated ramrod of a man had risen to something like emotional subtlety heightened my fear.

Nevertheless, characterizations tend to be thin, with few emotional or dramatic subtleties.

And there is at least one piece of emotional and moral subtlety that lingers.

And that's unusual for an artist who, as the rest of "Game Show" demonstrates, is increasingly matching material and emotional subtlety to conceptual ambition.

It was an instrument for conveying fine emotional subtleties.

There are interesting ideas at work here about love, loss and sexuality, but the emotional subtleties of the novel turn into bland speechifying (Scott).