Reviews of the film were generally mixed, but Robbie’s performance was praised; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote, “Robbie is wow and then some. Even when Focus fumbles, she deals a winning hand.” She was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 68th British Academy Film Awards.Her next appearance was alongside Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas in Saul Dibb’s war romantic drama Suite Française, a film based on the second part of Irène Némirovsky’s 2004 novel of the same name. In the film, she played a woman falling for a German soldier during the German occupation of France during World War II, a role that Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter found “underwritten”.