It was dull. The character was dull and unsympathetic. The pace was slow and they tried to show his grief but I can't keep watching a guy do mundane things just for the director to add minutes to his movie.

But you frequently show little sensibility and little understanding about what good cinema is, also you talk like only critics liked Manchester By the Sea which is far from reality. With a quick look I saw the movie has an 8 on Imdb from almost 150k votes, it also has a 8.2 of userscore in metacritic, a 4/5 from the users of Rottentomatoes and is included in the Top 10 favourite movies of 2016 by the users of Filmaffinity (Placed 4th on the list)

It has a 7.9, not an 8 on IMDB but people are often sheep when it comes to movies. Reviews influence them to like a movie or dislike a movie. This is especially with art movies. They feel like if they don't like something critics like they will come off as uncultured when in fact critics are just snobs.

You and your infinite excuses

I m Just pointing out you said it was about Taste. Manchester by the sea is a good movie, not great but thats subjective to my taste.. I dont think there are any bad stories, what makes it bad is the way its told and executed on the big screen, just recently i saw The Judge, the story was great but the execution was sloppy.. even a story about boy meeting girl story could be told in an amazing way.. (titanic).. and this is where Nolan comes in because his movie can cater to different audiences which include law light who like the big explosion & stuff and also respect audience like me and you with mature store telling and doesnt take his audience as idiots.. Barring the third act of Interstellar and TDKR

You are free to like dull movies - I'm not preventing you from watching them. Watch Logan - it follows that dull, artsy, long shots of nothing trend. I'm sure you'll like it too.