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The film has received generally positive reviews from critics.

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90 % of 69 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 7. 4 out of 10.

According to the site's summary of the critical consensus, " Chasing Amy explores gender roles, sexual mores, and the limits of friendship with a mixture of sensitivity, raw honesty, and director / screenwriter Kevin Smith's signature raunchy humor.

" Metacritic, which assigns a score of 1 – 100 to individual film reviews, gives the film an average rating of 71 based on 28 reviews.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said " While the surface of his film sparkles with sharp, ironic dialogue, deeper issues are forming, and Chasing Amy develops into a film of touching insights.

Most romantic comedies place phony obstacles in the way of true love, but Smith knows that at some level there's nothing funny about being in love: It's a dead serious business, in which your entire being is at risk.

" Ebert believed the film was an improvement over Smith's previous effort Mallrats and he added that Adams was a discovery.

Charles Taylor, writing for Salon, quipped " Chasing Amy isn't going to single-handedly save romantic comedy, but Smith ( Clerks ) has made the only romantic comedy in quite a while that acknowledges, even celebrates, the fact that love and sex are emotional anarchy.