Film critic Manny Farber called it "... entirely unpleasant ..." and agreed with The New York Times statement saying, "In an effort to trump the realism of flesh and blood movies, he has given up fantasy, which was pretty much the magic element".
Filmkritiker Manny Farber kaldte det "helt ubehagelig" og var enig med New York Times erklæring sigende, "I et forsøg på at overtrumfe realismen af kød og blod film, har han opgivet fantasi, hvilket var stort set det magiske element."