Cuckoo divided UK film critics sharply. , the film holds a 10% approval rating on
Rotten Tomatoes, based on ten reviews with an average rating of 3.4 out of 10. Tim Robey of
The Daily Telegraph wrote "After a debut as impressive as
The Gigolos, writer-director Richard Bracewell concocts a dismayingly daft script for this shoestring psychological thriller". David Jenkins in
Time Out commented that the film was "not particularly exciting or original, especially as it's never made quite clear what all the fuss is about". Andrew Lowry in
Total Film called it "well-intentioned but fairly undramatic". In a four-star
Daily Mirror review, David Edwards wrote that the film was "an unsettling, unconventional ... quite unlike anything our film industry is pumping out these days", adding that "Fraser is superb as a woman who just might be on the verge of a nervous breakdown". In a four-star
Den of Geek review, Doralba Picerno wrote that
Cuckoo was "a little gem of a movie ... which will keep you engrossed for its duration and get you to do a lot of thinking about it afterwards. This is independent British cinema at its best, a thought-provoking feature where there are no clear demarcations of either guilt or reality and the atmosphere is rarefied and eerie." ==References==