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In the Wall Street Journal , Roger Kimball attacks the recently deceased William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg for their "pretentious, proselytizing pornography ...
Was he at the street corner all along, watching the pretentious parade go by?
The New Yorker 's Lane calls it boring and pretentious: "The characters in Crash are so unsmiling--so driven, in every sense--that they make you ashamed of ever having enjoyed yourself."
James Salter in the Times on the decline of civilization and the rise of pop culture: Fine, I wish people read books more, too, but didn't it read like a parody of a windy, pretentious old fogey?
The undersea sci-fi adventure is dismissed as "another variation of the same old supernatural junk" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Critics deplore the film's pretentious pronouncements about man's place in the universe and say Levinson is "out of his element" trying to build suspense (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Janet Maslin calls the stars' performances irresistible and salutes Levinson for tackling a new genre.