Keaton's performance was singled out by Pauline Kael from "The New Yorker", who described it as "a glorious comedy performance that rides over many of the inanities in this picture" (...) "Keaton is smashing: the Tiger Lady's having all this drive is played for farce and Keaton keeps you alert to every shade of pride and panic the character feels. She's an ultra-feminine executive, a wide-eyed charmer, with a breathless ditziness that may remind you of Jean Arthur in "The More the Merrier"."