In Point of View, Pat Mullen had nothing but praise for the film, saying that "Write offers an appropriately poetic portrait of this influential voice." Amal Eqeiq, in the Journal of Middle East Studies, says that the film presents Darwish in "a paradox of recognition and erasure", opining that the film's main subtexts are that the film is intended for an Israeli audience, and that it comes to show that audience that the Palestinian activist had "an Israeli story" too.
