might be to regain use of certain functions." Principal photography for Quid Pro Quo took place on location in Upper Freehold, New Jersey, with additional road scenes shot in La Conner, Washington. Reception Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave Quid Pro Quo an approval rating of 60%, based on 35 reviews. The critical consensus reads, "Despite a stunning performance by Vera Farmiga, Quid Pro Quo never develops its effective parts into a convincing whole." On Metacritic, the film holds an average score of 55 out of 100, based on 13 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Critics said the film did not go far enough into the question of why able-bodied people would want to be handicapped. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter said "Brooks delves into a netherworld of fetishisms and handicap worship in his daring first feature, Quid Pro Quo. The trouble is the movie isn’t daring enough. Brooks tiptoes into territory Luis Buñuel would have frolicked in, but he does so without the master surrealist’s desire to outrage and confound his viewers." Writing for Paste, Alissa Wilkinson reviewed the film positively, writing Brooks "channels the inherent shock value of his material into a thoughtful, measured meditation on the nature of healing, wholeness and desire. Stahl and Farmiga are finely and unnervingly subtle, leaving unsettledness about what just happened and what it all means. The film, intimately shot, sidesteps exploitative potential, and the finely tuned screenplay obscures its titular theme (colloquially translated 'tit for tat’) in multiple layers of narrative and a hit of noir." Though critics were mixed on the film’s plot and ending, with some criticizing the twist ending in particular, multiple critics commended Farmiga’s performance as Fiona. Reyhan Harmanci of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "the only real tension onscreen is her mercurial moods, as she vacillates between objectifying Knott…to irrational, hysterical anger", adding, "it’s a shame…that the script didn't call for her to go full-on Fatal Attraction [as] she could have pulled it off." Honeycutt wrote, "Her Fiona is strong and weak, erotic and enigmatic, provocative and pathetic." Leo Goldsmith of IndieWire opined, "Though the film hints at sensitive and psychologically complex subject matter, it seems far more interested in wrapping its story up in a pretty and clever way than delving into rich emotional territory." Honeycutt concluded, "This is a startling and promising debut film by Brooks. You just wish he would trust