 Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" called the film "extraordinarily fine and funny" with "superb" performances from Keaton and Hemingway.Charles Champlin of the "Los Angeles Times" called it "harder, harsher, crueler, deeper-going, more assertive but in the end no less life-affirming than 'Annie Hall,'" and declared "Manhattan" "even better" than that film.Alexander Walker of the "London Evening Standard" wrote