 Outside Canada, Scott Tobias, writing for "Variety", called it "a tense, mournful, and profoundly ambivalent portrait of radicalism".Adam Cook of "The New York Times" called it "unapologetically abrasive and politically charged".For producing the film, Hany Ouichou received the Canadian Media Producers Association's Emerging Producer Award, a $5,000 prize conferred by a jury headed by Robert Lantos.