Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that "the film cuts back and forth between scenes of their childhood and adolescence, it evokes their misery and isolation with a feverish intensity that recalls scenes from Hitchcock and De Palma".
Stephen Holden of The New York Times stated that the movie interweaves scenes from their youth and teenage years, creating a sense of their suffering and loneliness that is comparable to those found in films by Hitchcock and De Palma.