Jabarkan Penerimaan dari Before, Now & Then

Film ini mendapatkan ulasan dari kritikus-kritikus di berbagai media internasional. Leslie Felperin dari The Hollywood Reporter menulis "...intoxicating work that holds the viewer in a tight, loving embrace that won’t let go." Michael Nordine dari Variety menyatakan "Before, Now & Then moves with its own dreamy cadence, with narrative developments washing over the film like waves." Stephanie Bunbury dari Deadline Hollywood memuji teknik sinematograf dengan manyebutkan bahwa film ini "wreathed in poetic melancholy and never less than beautiful; Batara Goempar’s cinematography belongs to another era of soft lamplight, rich shadows and glowing fabrics." Wendy Ide dari Screen International menulis "Andini crafts a sense of sedate melancholy and suppressed emotions with a polite cello-heavy score and numerous shots of slow hair-brushing." Rory O'Connor dari The Film Stage memberi nilai B dengan menulis "Yet for a film that begins with a ruthless decapitation it is relentlessly well-mannered: all ointment, no flies."