The film received 'Two Thumbs Up' from Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert on their television programme "Siskel & Ebert and The Movies". Pat Collins of WWOR-TV called it 'Polanski's best film ever'. Desson Howe, of the "Washington Post", called the movie 'vintage Polanski', with its relentless paranoia, irony, diffident strangers and nutty cameos. British film magazine "Empire" rated the movie three out five, calling it Polanski's most satisfying film since "Chinatown", and one of the best traditional thrillers to come down the pike in quite some time.