formulaic

Two of his victims took their own lives some years before the trial - a fact which he acknowledged in court with the same penitent but formulaic apology that he's offered to everyone else.

She’s gotten no explanation beyond that one, formulaic March 10 email dispatched to the university.

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?