'"Roger Greenspun of "The New York Times" wrote, "Essentially 'Little Murders' constructs its world from the point of view of someone sitting behind the locked doors of an apartment on the Upper West Side—and so long as it maintains the conditions of that point of view it works—dramatically, cinematically, whatever way you will.Once it breaks with those conditions it becomes unterrifying, unfunny, superficial, inadequate.But 'Little Murders' usually is funny — in its great harangues and sermons, in its superlative cast, and in Arkin's direct intelligence in handling most of the dramatic moments."