[1] Radiolandia magazine declared that the theme of the film was of "appreciable depth", celebrating that its the struggle of young women who earn a living on their own in big cities.

"[2] In a less enthusiastic review, La Nación equated the film to a television play and described it as an "elementary story loaded with ingenuity and conventionalism".

[2] Writing in 2001, Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela described the film as a "boring point of view that wants to function as social criticism.

"[2] In a 2022 poll of The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema—organized by magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival—Las modelos reached the joint 62nd spot, meaning it received one vote.

[3] It was voted by filmmaker Lorena Jozami, who described it as a "novel film ahead of its time with strong female characters that defy the androcentric trend of cinema to this day.