Ally Sheedy plays Lucy with a sexy grime.

| Mar 29, 2021

As well as its procession of downtown drug soirées, High Art offers one of the more sensitive on-screen depictions of lesbian sex in (relatively) mainstream cinema.

| Jan 21, 2021

[Ally Sheedy's] excellent as Berliner.

| Jan 11, 2021

High Art is often compelling and uncannily accurate in its evocation of downtown demi-monde characters and druggy, entropic milieu-the art in this film is high in more ways than one.

| Apr 11, 2018

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

A highlight of the 1998 Sundance Festival: Cholodenko depicts with unwavering veracity the breakup of one longtime lesbian relationship just as another, unexpected one begins. The acting of the three women, Sheedy Mitchell, and Clarkson, is superb.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 5, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Patricia Clarkson succeeds in creating a complete, complex character without ever overplaying the stoned behavior. Radha Mitchell is successful at suggesting the interaction of several motives: love, lust, curiosity, ambition, admiration.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000