 Hal Hinson of The Washington Post was unimpressed with the film , calling it Jarmusch 's " least engaging , and the first in which his bohemian posturing actually becomes an irritant " . Of the film 's characters , critic Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader wrote that some were " beautifully imagined and realized , while others seem drawn from a more familiar stockpile , designed for reuse rather than discovery " . David Denby , concluding a mixed review of the film for New York Magazine , mused that " one feels Jarmusch has pushed hipsterism and cool about as far as they can go , and that isn 't nearly far enough . " This reproach was echoed by other reviewers who found that the film 's style did not stray far from that of the director 's earlier work – a critical backlash that would be amplified two years later following the release of Night On Earth ( 1991 ) . 
