 Critics for "The Washington Post", the "New York Times", and the "Baltimore Sun" cited the film as one of the ten best of the year.Frank Langella won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, and the Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama.Andrew Wagner and Fred Parnes were nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.