No life, no personality, no passion of its own.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2019

An intelligent and perceptive film, neither unique nor earth-shattering, but still worthwhile.

Full Review | Original Score: 72/100 | Apr 19, 2007

This emotional jigsaw puzzle is cannily constructed.

| Mar 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 30, 2005

Heights is a New York genre film....keeping our interest with adroit story telling and excellent technicals

| Sep 22, 2005

...makes some subtle observations about insecurities and preconceptions, and the script unfolds its big twists in a way that's surprising without turning manipulative.

Full Review | Aug 29, 2005

A noteworthy ending to Merchant's career and a solid beginning for the film careers of Terrio, Fox and Banks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2005

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 19, 2005

...well-designed but somewhat airless

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 12, 2005

Though good in parts not good as a whole.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 6, 2005

What happens to these not-so-interesting people isn't nearly as compelling as writer Amy Fox and first-time feature director Chris Terrio intended.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2005

If the plot is thin, at least the characters are interesting, and the performances are consistently strong.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2005

The ties that bind this drama's often-smug and off-putting characters are contrived, and the plotting rarely goes deeper than soap opera surface. And that's a shame, considering the caliber of its cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 23, 2005

The dance these filmmakers have created is the sort that makes viewing a joy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2005

Feels like a stage work - a self-important and self-consciously lofty one at that - and first-time director Chris Terrio does little to make it come alive.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 22, 2005

The material isn't strong enough and the first-time director isn't experienced enough to make it work.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2005

The story defies the convention of its genre by actually going somewhere.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

They work like little jigsaw puzzles, seducing us into the lives of characters via little slivers, then keeping us guessing about how they will collide and change one another.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 21, 2005