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It is undoubtedly a serious art collection, but its setting — in a vast replica of a palatial Roman villa — has something of the pretentious inclinations of San Simeon, without Hearst’s pick-and-mix flamboyance.
(Chatterbox pauses here to emphasize that he doesn't consider either Rosenbaum or Navasky to be vain or pretentious, though Rosenbaum is a bit of a technophobe; see his Slate
Just when Jack has you convinced that Judy is a pretentious albatross (Richardson's very British clucking-tongue routine helps here), Judy's stock rises as she stoically describes how the intolerant new government had begun to crack down on her and her father.
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.
Praise also goes to comedian Mike Nichols' film-acting debut: His "timing is flawless, his speech peppered with strange pauses through which we grasp the full weight of his irony, derision, and sheer incredulity at the peculiarity of the human phenomena that surround him" (Leslie Camhi, the Village Voice ). (Slate's Sarah Kerr argues that the movie is merely pretentious.)