The Gordons were considered miscast and generally unlikeable. The film, however, received mainly negative reviews and critics felt Reeves was "woefully miscast". Reed considers Damon "hopelessly miscast" and finds Bridges' performance mumbly, lumbering, and self-indulgent. A reviewer for "The Times" said Helman was "woefully miscast" as McLean. Kenrick calls the recording badly miscast "pretentious trash". Pauline Kael believed that Streep had been miscast. Derek Elley of "Variety" observed that Basu was a miscast as the "idealistic cop". But Murray, in his first serious role, is anything but miscast. She cast them by accident, which led to a miscast. This view was echoed by Cukor, who believed Lansbury had been "consistently miscast" by MGM. He cited Ian Holm as being miscast. He continued to feel that he was marginalized with his views miscast. She had high expectations for the film but soon realized that Brazzi was miscast. Each believed that Laurence Harvey had been miscast as Isherwood. The method is reported to have an extremely low error rate for miscast ballots.