Heights Critic Reviews

Heights breathes, is briefly and immediately present, and is over. In this summer of noisy steroid cinema, such small favors are welcome.Read the full review

The film is one of those interlocking dramas where all of the characters are involved in each other's lives, if only they knew it. We know, and one of our pleasures is waiting for the pennies to drop.Read the full review

Perversely fascinating.Read the full review

Beautifully shot on location in New York and consistently well-acted, but it sticks a little too closely to the surface to be very compelling.Read the full review

Director Chris Terrio adapts Amy Fox's play with flashes of wit, moments of insight, and some fine performances. But Heights' characters move along such preordained paths and perform such familiar movie actions that they might as well sport antennae.Read the full review

An entertaining ensembler marbled with wit and heartache.Read the full review

Like the film, the characters mean well and look good. But they're so deeply immersed in their own heads that they can't see the world for their needs.Read the full review

Heights is nothing more than a second-rate version of several much better movies, all of which are available on DVD and video.Read the full review