 Alan Scherstuhl of "The Village Voice" said the film was "an uncommonly ambitious science-fiction romance ... sparkling and unsettling at once".MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher praised the film for its "incredibly ambitious and profoundly provocative science fiction drama about ideas that require no FX to sell them".John DeFore of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote, "Though the explanations Fisher comes up with for his sci-fi contrivances may not be fully satisfying in the end, the conceits themselves offer much to play with, bringing the film into that pleasing area where an imaginary reality has interesting things to say about our own."