In the years since, the film has been regarded more favorably, gaining in both commercial and critical stature. As of August 2020 it holds a "fresh" rating on film review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with 71% (20 of 28) critic reviews positive. In his review of the film's 1995 re-release, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars. Noted feminist film critic B. Ruby Rich said that when she first saw "Faster, Pussycat!" in the 1970s she "was absolutely outraged that had been forced to watch this misogynist film that objectified women and that was really just short of soft-core porn." Upon viewing it again in the early 1990s, however, she "just loved it" and wrote a piece in "The Village Voice" reappraising the film and discussing her change in opinion.