 The soundtrack also includes works by a number of baroque and classical composers, reflecting the story's 18th-Century-French setting; pieces by Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Christoph Willibald Gluck feature prominently, although no French composers are included.<ref></ref>

"Dangerous Liaisons" holds a score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 30 reviews.<ref></ref> On Metacritic it has a score of 74 based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="meta"></ref> Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+ on scale of A to F.<ref></ref>

Pauline Kael in "The New Yorker" described it as "heaven – alive in a way that movies rarely are.