 At Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 97%, based on 117 reviews and an average rating of 8.1/10.It also has a score of 83 on Metacritic based on 31 reviews.In Canada, Jennie Punter gave it four stars in "The Globe and Mail", praising it as "an exquisite, humanistic and subtly topical work of cinema art."