Digital Spy's Nick Levine called the track a "slushy duet".

[3] Betty Page from NME wrote, "As for "If You Were Here with Me Now", well, I predict the world will be hearing an awful lot of this, probably around Christmas.

It's a duet with 'mystery singer' Keith Washington, who sounds like Son Of Lionel but could be helping Kylie to be the Big American Hit.

"[4] Writing Minogue's biography for her special on Australian music video programme Rage, they called the song one of the "richly beautiful ballads".

[5] In 2023, Robert Moran of Australian daily tabloid newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald ranked the song as Minogue's 178th best song (out of 183), adding that sounds like "a play for the Aladdin soundtrack".