Tsai Ming-liang
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" has an approval rating of 87% based on 39 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "With little dialogue, Tsai Ming-liang takes the viewer through a powerful journey of loneliness and longing". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable".