specificity is largely lost in modern media criticism which is the cost of brevity and unfortunately armchair critics have equipped an arsenal of platitudes to hand-wave any analysis or accountability for their critiques. horoscope grade applicability is often catchy.
sometimes when the central critique of something is that "it's shallow" with no ideas for fixing that, that's either virtue signal faux intelligence via implying one's own grasp on the subject is infinitely deeper, or actually just means "not heavy handed enough for me"
we're hedonically adapted to measuring media exclusively on the metric of how deeply it explores its themes and I straight up think that's an unsustainable way to approach art
at some point someone described a piece of media as being "scared of its own subject matter" for the first time and shortform film critic hobbyists have been jerking off about that one ever since