A husband and father of two, he'd rather spend his evenings playing computer games in solitude than with his concerned wife and increasingly abandoned sons.

[2] Adam Cook in a dispatch to Brooklyn Magazine wrote "Radwanski’s sensitive and empathetic approach effectively brings the viewer into this mundanity and helping us understand the silent pressures and tensions of this unremarkable man and his existential woes.

"[3] Angelo Muredda for Cinema Scope said "In just two features and several shorts, co-conceived with producing partner Dan Montgomery, Radwanski has proven himself a gentler, Southern Ontarian answer to Dardennes-style social realism, finding dignity and pathos in the repetitive rhythms and small pleasures of working-class lives.

"[4] Mubi Notebook editor Daniel Kasman observed "Such a small story, such an average person to spend time with—this is something no television show would attempt, no mid-tier festival film dare gamble their eligibility for an audience award on.

However, not all reviews were positive during its festival run; The Hollywood Reporter deemed it "an aggressively dreary look at a man who shouldn't have had a family".