 In "The New York Times", A.O.Scott wrote it was not initially clear why "Death of a Salesman" was selected, but Willy Loman's presence soon became felt, and favourably compared the use of the play to "All About My Mother"s use of "A Streetcar Named Desire".Peter Travers gave the film three and a half stars in "Rolling Stone", praising it as "a dazzling, darkly funny, quietly devastating human drama."