 As of March 2013, the film holds a 94% "Fresh" rating at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 69 positive reviews out of 74 reviews counted.As of October 2007, the Olmstead's website displays videos of Marla working on three more canvases, "Fairy Map", "Rabbit", and "Colorful Rain".The videos employ the jump-cut technique, meaning that the scene (a shot of the canvas on which Marla paints) is generally continuous, but that the action stops and then starts again with the subject (Marla) having shifted position relative to the video frame.