 "HipHopDX"s Andre Grant emphasized "Sorry" for being "particularly ear worming" with its "softly chiming" bells.Jon Pareles from "The New York Times" summarized it as "twitchy, flippant song that's by no means an apology" but "a combative, unglossy track on an album full of them" instead.Writing in The 405, Samantha O'Connor classified "Sorry" as "flippant and fierce".