On its UK release, reviews appeared in major UK newspapers. Sukhdev Sandhu of "The Daily Telegraph" said that Bracewell "evokes with poetic clarity the loneliness of late-night London." Ian Johns in "The Times" wrote that "intimate camerawork and scenes moodily capture half-revealed lives". Larushka Ivan-Zadeh in "Metro" told readers to "seek out this cliché-confounding, utterly intriguing debut Brit flick", adding that this "The Gigolos" is a "real rough gem". Mike McCahill wrote in "The Sunday Telegraph" that this is "a disarming debut...that subverts your every expectation with each new scene."