and "engaging", adding: "In his feature film debut, Sibay is wonderful with actors and dialogue but needs to tighten his pacing and, in long verbal stretches, to learn how to avoid occasional tedium. These, however, are typical first-film flaws, easily forgivable in the light of Sibay's overall accomplishment." Bob Strauss of the Los Angeles Daily News wrote: "A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon aspires to be an up-to-the-minute report from the front of the war between the sexes. Some of the film's particulars feel a tad dated, and the basic conflict, of course, is as old as Adam and Eve. But despite its familiarity and predictable, self-pitying tone, Futon generates a remarkable degree of behavioral credibility. Thanks to a solid, multilayered performance by Rubin, Sibay concocts a spare, sexy movie, a tale of old-fashioned romantic confusion that often seems fresh." TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars and described the film as a "slow-moving drama", which "drags in spots, but [is] well acted and has good production values". The reviewer added: "It also intelligently addresses the issues of manipulation, frustration and false hope that take place within relationships." After the film was shown at the Stockholm International Film Festival, movie critic Susanne Ljung wrote: "This film should be obligatory pepping for all young women! Women's shaky way to independence, both sexual and professional, is all too seldom portrayed as sensitively and penetratingly as in this film." The Dutch VPRO Cinema awarded the film three and a half stars out of five and wrote: "An independent production in the tradition of Sex, Lies & Videotape, [but] without this level being reached. The parallel between Helen and the film project being talked about is a bit too obvious." Joe Leydon of Variety (magazine) stated: "Provocative title and a few steamy scenes are the only conceivable selling points for Sibay's A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon. Small-budget pic is by turns laughably stilted and sophomorically self-referential as a drama about L.A. scriptwriter wannabes, their sexual hang-ups and their mind games." In their DVD & Video Guide 2004, authors Mick Martin and Marsha Porter gave an unfavorable review: "Pointless film about a shallow woman who uses men for sex, money, and her career. She's so insipid and unsympathetic that it's painful to watch." Iotis Erlewine of AllMovie gave the film a two out of five star rating. The book