The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes sampled 49 reviews and gave the film a score of 86%; the average score is 7.4 out of 10.
Owen Gleiberman, writing for Entertainment Weekly, criticized Pakula's direction, stating, "Pakula is good at laying out an intricate, almost mathematical series of events (his best film remains All the President's Men), but he's not big on atmosphere.