Liberty Heights Critic Reviews

A mature, accomplished piece of work, both funny and deeply felt, personal cinema of the best kind...Levinson has made the memory film we always hoped he would.Read the full review

Barry Levinson goes deep with Liberty Heights, and the result is a grand slam.Read the full review

Demonstrates what writer-director Levinson does best: evoke the sights, smells and atmosphere of his youth with intelligence, humor and a keen sense of social perspective.Read the full review

Emerges as an accurate memory of that time when the American melting pot, splendid as a theory, became a reality.Read the full review

Both a lovingly crafted remembrance of things past and a deliberate broadening and darkening of the canvas Levinson previously filled in "Diner," "Tin Men," and "Avalon."Read the full review

Just a good time at the movies, but it's still a smarter two hours than most "good times" are.Read the full review

Has integrity, but the way he bends his tale to make a statement is overly deliberate.Read the full review

If Liberty Heights is much too soft at its center, it still offers a deeper immersion in that old '50s feeling than any other Hollywood film in recent memory.Read the full review

But Levinson's passion to explain how he got from there to ''Sphere'' gives Liberty Heights its own farkatke Hollywood integrity.Read the full review