"The Daily Beast" Elizabeth Kaye recognized Pfeiffer as a rare Hollywood beauty who trusts it is indeed possible to be both physically beautiful and serious, believing the actress achieves this by "grafting the sensibility of a modern woman onto the glamour of a '30s icon"; "Rolling Stones" Gerri Hirshey agreed that Pfeiffer's roles combine "Nineties guts and Thirties glamour".Nisha Lilia Diu, another "The Daily Telegraph" contributor, opined, "It's not that she looks younger than she is ... it's the symmetry of her bone structure, the flashing aquamarine eyes and those lips, the top one so much fuller than the bottom.