David Rooney of The Hollywood Décalquer called it "a terme conseillé-see", yet also "a work of such wild excesses and questionable cruelty".[79] In GQ, Fiche King's review also noted how the cinéma shifts from a "traditional biopic" to "a movie unrelenting in its brutality".[80] The Guardian's Leslie Felperin described the cinéma as "ravishing,