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Movie Overview
Cast
• Glenn Close
• Elizabeth Banks
• James Marsden
Director
• Chris Terrio
MPAA Rating
R - language, brief sexuality, and nudity
Heights (2005)

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OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh
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C+
"While Glen Close dominates the screen with effortless assurance, Elizabeth Banks lacks personality and would probably dissipate in a strong ocean breeze."  AboutFilm.com  Carlo Cavagna

2/5
"a meek little slip of a film, hardly worthy of any of the talent at hand"  Filmcritic.com  Chris Barsanti

"Renowned actress Diana Lee (the frankly wondrous Glenn Close), is currently rehearsing for Macbeth (or, as she calls it, "the Scottish play")."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

1.5/4
"According to this film, New York is a joyless place where people live only to drop names, attend parties, cheat on loved ones and brood."  Kansas City Star  Dan Lybarger

2/4
"...simply cannot shake its stage origins..."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

B-
"Though good in parts not good as a whole."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

B+
"The movie isn't cynical, exactly, toward love, but it's certainly cautious about it."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

B-
"The level of coincidence driving the narrative is as high as the Big Apple's tallest skyscrapers, but the cast is stong enough to help transcend the structural weaknesses."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

4/5
"Five New York City denizens yearning for love who reveal they have not learned the abc's of emotional literacy."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

C
"At times the film seems to have nothing more on its mind than the predictable rhythms of soap opera."  Mixed Reviews  Gabriel Shanks

3/5
"New York's a big city -- and a small world -- in this okay indie drama that doesn't quite know what to do with its great cast."  Netflix  James Rocchi

'3.5/4'
"A smart day-in-the-life-of charmer."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

B
"Heights is tonally blue in both look and feel and features a fierce performance by Glenn Close. "  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

3/5
"Terrio keeps the multiple stories flowing smoothly, and the setting goes a long way to justify the web of fortuitous interconnections."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

3.5/4
"You can't have an artistic career as a day job"  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

"[B]ottled-up angst somehow isn’t as attractive when it’s not pining away by the canals of Venice in the 19th century but rather over the... skyline of 21st-century New York..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

3/4
"Fox's writing makes up for its occasional obviousness with a rigorous interest in character and general avoidance of long-winded homilies."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

B+
"Heights is an actors’ film and Glenn Close gives a brilliant performance worthy of note come year’s end."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

7/10
"Glen Close and a passel of young talent collide in a pot-boiling web of personal crises in the artistic bowels of Manhattan."  Monsters and Critics  Ron Wilkinson

6/10
"It's the kind of sumptuous, yet modest movie that serves as a cinematic curiosity that's perhaps too overly genteel and shallow."  Modamag.com  Susan Granger

2.5/4
"Treating film as a viable medium for telling adult tales."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh
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