Contemporary reviews have remained positive. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" awarded the film three out of four stars. Jonathan Rosenbaum of the "Chicago Reader" wrote the film "shows Disney at the tail end of his best period, when his backgrounds were still luminous with depth and detail and his incidental characters still had range and bite." The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported the film received an approval rating of 97% based on 35 reviews with an average score of 8.00/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The rich colors, sweet songs, adorable mice and endearing (if suffering) heroine make "Cinderella" a nostalgically lovely charmer".