 Venky Vembu of "The Hindu" wrote that Koechlin lent "such verisimilitude to her portrayal of a person with cerebral palsy, that you forget [...] that she's an able-bodied actress".Writing for "The Commercial Appeal", John Beifuss compared Koechlin's performance to Eddie Redmayne's portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the biopic "The Theory of Everything" (2014).He wrote that her performance would have attracted Academy Award notice in a major film studio production.