"Joey Nolfi ("Entertainment Weekly") states that West "molded his heroine – never bogged down by romantic subplots – as a badass genre role model for girls, with more scenes of assured tomb raiding and less overt sexuality" (West notes to have done so would have "probably would’ve been the death of the film and the character").Critic Cristina Lucia Stasia also argues that the film "Lara Croft" distinguished itself from other popular "girl power" shows and films of the same period