The film stars Jeffrey Wright, William Fichtner, Boyd Holbrook, Mare Winningham, David Patrick Kelly and Yul Vazquez.

[13] Ben Travers at IndieWire gave it a grade B and wrote: "Can be a tad slow, a touch too simple, and even a little distracted from making a larger, more declarative point about modern incarceration.

"[14] Aryn Braun of The Economist said about the movie, "If Ms Sackler’s goal was to break the stereotypes inherent in the prison-drama genre, she succeeded.

"[15] The Document Podcast host, Matt Holzman, of KCRW said ""Madeleine wanted to make a movie that basically asks, 'is incarceration the best way to deal with people who commit crimes?

"[16] A reviewer for the Chicago Sun Times wrote "Director Madeleine Sackler does a magnificent job of plunging us into this world, in which inmates are almost always seeing things through the bars of their cells, or the tiny windows giving them a glimpse of the sky.

"[17] In 2019, the film was listed as one of The Marshall Project's picks for Criminal Justice in Movies, TV, and Podcasts.

[18] In his 2021 book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe notes the mysterious source of funding for the project, likely from Madeline Sackler's inheritance from her family, the prime drivers of America's opioid epidemic.