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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
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