 He later selected the film as his favourite to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, though it lost to "In a Better World" from Denmark.Leonard Maltin also gave the film three and a half stars, referring to it as "tough, spellbinding".Ty Burr, writing for "The Boston Globe", gave the film three and a half stars, praising a bus scene as harrowing but saying the climax is "a plot twist that feels like one coincidence too far", that "leaves the audience doing math on their fingers rather than reeling in shock".