Maria Tereshchenko of Kino Teatr, believed the film is like a "completed work of another era" in the 2000s, when the film was anticipated to be completed. ""Hoffmaniada" conveys acutely and accurately the feelings of a romantic, artist, poet, locked in everyday reality, but living not at all by it, but by a phantom life" and is an anachronism that "could only arise in the timelessness in which it was shot, when the management of the Soyuzmultfilm studio changed every few years, and the director had the highest degree of freedom from the dictates of officials and financiers." Daria Budanova of "Mir Fantastiki", believes Hoffman's stories are difficult to adapt because 'the motif of the mirror image of the real world and the fantastic world, their inevitable interpenetration, permeates all of Hoffmann's work. That is why his fairy tales are so difficult to film. However "Stanislav Sokolov succeeded" and "managed to understand the genius of German Romanticism." In terms of the puppets, "outwardly, they resemble figures from Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride": detailed and outrageously caricatured images, which, however, are almost devoid of computer processing, and therefore unnatural cartoonishness. They seem to turn into real live actors."A review from J.B. Spins wonders whether acclaimed director of the Soviet Union, Andrei Tarkovsky's famous unfinished screenplay "Hoffmaniana" could have been finished considering how "screenwriter Victor Slavkin so cleverly and seamlessly integrate Hoffman into his own stories." Spins thinks the movie is Quixotic, with "the sets, backdrops, and costumes alone make "Hoffmaniada" one of grandest literary period dramas of the year. It also might be the best stop-motion animated feature since "My Life as a Zucchini", even on a par with Jiří Barta's "Toys in the Attic"." French review Little Big Animation noted the areas where the film could have improved such as "the rhythm of the editing." Also the viewers are "immersed oneself so far in the mirror game" despite a "lack benchmarks and subtitles no longer follow."