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Montreal is quite acceptable; Montréal would be pretentious except perhaps in Canada.
It's "a sort of Stephen King novel for highbrows" (David Gates, the New York Times Book Review ) that combines "existential bleakness" (David Ulin, Newsday ) and "breezy silliness" (Bill Kent, the Washington Post Book World ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani dissents, calling Already Dead "simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent."
But other features seemed pretentious and empty, like a photo spread of male stars and their ponderous quotations.
Here the writer-director, Willard Carroll, gets to hear his pretentious lines read by Gena Rowlands and Sean Connery, who (if the press clips are to be believed) jumped at the chance to stand around a kitchen and argue about events that happened 25 years in the past.
Men at Work and the columns in Bunts are fresher, less rococo, less pretentious, than his political columns.