An unnamed American film critic announced at an international conference on psychoanalysis in Italy that Findlay's own name appearing on Angel Number 9 was "an obvious pseudonym," as the film clearly could only have been made by a male director. Molly Haskell, however, strongly disagreed: in her 1975 article "Are Women Directors Different?", she argued Angel Number 9 must have been directed by a woman simply because of its reference to pregnancy. For Haskell, this is a "no-no in sexploitation movies, a definite downer to Don Juan fantasies of quickie, no-fault sex".