In the Financial Times Ludovic Hunter-Tilney gives Director’s Cut three stars: “Kate Bush’s perfectionism is a reason for the long gaps between her albums. It also appears to motivate Director’s Cut …”

In the London Evening Standard John Aizlewood also awards three stars: “That Director’s Cut is an album whose existence has neither rhyme nor reason and that its track listing borders on wilfully perverse actually adds to 52-year-old Bush’s maverick charm …“