Reviewing "Persona" home video, Richard Brody credited Bergman for a work that shed realism with special effects and conveyed "a tactile visual intimacy", and praised the film's island setting. Leonard Maltin gave the film stars in his "2013 Movie Guide", calling it "haunting, poetic, for discerning viewers". According to "Time Out"s review, Elisabet can (despite her fraud) be understood: "not an easy film, but an infinitely rewarding one". "Chicago Reader" critic Dave Kehr wrote that it might be Bergman's best, but objected to its unoriginal ideas (for an experimental film) and tediousness. Emanuel Levy reviewed "Persona" in 2016, calling it a complicated, mysterious and artistic psychological drama with experimentation presenting a novel result.