Anna McKibbin of the AV Club gives Woman of the Hour a B, calling the director’s debut effort “ambitious,” as she’s not satisfied to simply gesture toward the magnitude of misogyny. In McKibbin’s words:

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut Woman of the Hour begins behind a camera. A woman is being photographed on a dusty hilltop against a piercingly blue sky. A photographer snaps photos of her as she talks about her recent turmoil.