Critical Reception
"All the Man That I Need" garnered mainly positive reviews from music critics. In a review of the album I'm Your Baby Tonight, James Hunter from Rolling Stone magazine called it "an outsize ballad about poverty and damaged self-regard, so expertly that the song, with its effective whiff of Spanish guitar, stages undeniable pop drama." Allmusic's Ashley S. Battel said that the song is one of "the two high points she does reach on this album " and added "the uplifting tale of another's love being enough to provide happiness in ." The New York Times' Stephen Holden was also positive in his review, viewing the song as a "hunk of gargantuan pop bombast swathed in echo and glitzy astral twinkles." Greg Kot of Chicago Tribune was also positive in his review, writing that through the song, Houston was providing "soundtrack to a million love affairs."
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