Negative reviews mostly called the film incomprehensible, pretentious, depressing, or self-indulgent. His nose serves as a symbol of his own snobbery and pretentious attitude. More generally, it is a satire of pretentious and untalented performers everywhere. Critic Sarita A. Tanwar described it as a "boring, exhausting and pretentious" film. Rolling Stone" called the book "stunningly boring" and an "autobiography of a pretentious oligarch. She attempts to appear progressive and cool but often comes off as misinformed and pretentious. They call each other ""tacky"" and ""pretentious"". Now those things are seen as being kind of pretentious. Within the contemporary American literary scene Griswold became known as erratic, dogmatic, pretentious, and vindictive. Wise's character changed from being a conventional straight man into a pretentious and self-satisfied buffoon. It's not pretentious, it's pretty. More mature than Marvel; less pretentious than Vertigo. Aika is a student who can alternately be shy, stubborn, and pretentious. Without trying to be pretentious or intentional, his written characters are well-balanced, natural and unconventional. She found it "pretentious", so the couple never lived there.