Critical response to the film was somewhat negative. A. O. Scott for "The New York Times" wrote "is something charming about the movie's vision of poetry as a sleazy, glamorous pursuit" but called Lang's direction "flat" and "paceless" and criticised the "painfully expository script" for "some astonishingly bad dialogue." Ronald Mangravite for the "Miami New Times" called it "run-of-the-mill" and "very, very routine." He comments that "[as film noir, this is routine straight-to-video material. As lesbian cinema, it's hardly groundbreaking material." Paula Nechak's review for the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" is more positive and praises Susie Porter who she says "radiates intelligence and carries an accessible sexiness to the screen."