[4] At the time of the film's release, Hearn's lawsuit had been dismissed by the courts on the grounds that he could not definitively prove that the painting was fake; in September 2019, the decision was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal, which awarded Hearn $60,000 on the grounds that the legal onus was actually on the gallery owner to prove that the painting was real, which he also could not do.

The Winnipeg Free Press says that despite being "overly long" at points, it is "a stunning picture of colonial exploitation and stolen Indigenous patrimony".

[9] The Globe and Mail described There Are No Fakes as "a shocking tale of counterfeit art, sexual abuse and colonialist exploitation."

L.A Hawbaker offered in their review for PopMatters that Kastner uses There Are No Fakes to emphasize the fact that those benefitting from Morriseau's work were white men.

[10] They then go on to say that "the crimes that took place at the Bingwi reserve are just a small sampling of the societal harm done to indigenous populations in Canada".