 In 2009, "Politics Daily" wrote that, "calling the 1969 film a comedy misses its "noir" backbeat of betrayed romanticism, and thinking of it as a madcap autobiography misses its politics.This is a movie driven by the military draft and the Vietnam War".Upon its initial release, "Newsweek" called the film "the best of a number of remarkable new films which seem to question many of the traditional assumptions of establishment America."