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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It's all as pretentious as the arty types it seeks to chastise for not living their lives honestly. Read more
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: These are not people me and you and everyone we know know -- these are 'short version' people, characters who comfort each other by quoting Shakespeare. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: Perhaps not since Fatal Attraction has Glenn Close been so overwhelming, so gloriously intimidating. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: All very inside a particular stratum of New York, and that can be annoying for the majority of us on the outside. But this very insularity is responsible for the perversely fascinating ways the characters' lives intersect. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: The performances are all excellent, with Banks the real find here. Read more
Melinda Ennis, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A refreshing, adult-themed departure from the summer's cartoons and alien frights. Read more
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: If the plot is thin, at least the characters are interesting, and the performances are consistently strong. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A week after seeing this multi-character Manhattan roundelay, you may barely remember its small, not particularly original ironies. Yet it's wholly alive while it's up there on the screen, in a way few movies are anymore. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Based on a play by Amy Fox, Heights is 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 more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Heights is far from a perfect movie, but as a hint of Terrio's talent, it's an eminently watchable effort. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Heights is definitely worth a visit, even if it stops short of the loftiest peaks. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: ...don't feel forced or schematic. Read more
Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: The movie I wanted Closer to be. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: By the time we're sure of how the day is going to end for these jittery achievers, the movie starts dragging its feet to the point where we're ready to leave these New Yorkers with their traumas. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Heights is just as contrived as the entertainment it mocks. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The performances are first-rate. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: ... cumbersome drama. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I must confess that there were long stretches in Heights when I felt that the proceedings were a tad too 'theatrical' for my taste. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The film is never dull, the writing and direction are impeccable, the ensemble performances are uniformly seamless, and Heights is brave, eloquent and riveting. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Amy Fox's play, with New York cliches for characters, was never going to hit, ahem, the movie heights. But cut loose in the middle of a comic-book summer, Heights is just different enough, just adult enough, to warrant a climb and a look. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It is entertaining to see the lives of complex people become brutally simple all of a sudden. They build elaborate facades of belief and image, they think they know who they are and what people think of them, and suddenly they're back at the beginning. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's just a snapshot of the daily struggle known as life. Read more
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: Sufficiently enjoyable and intelligent to erase unpleasant memories of Merchant-Ivory's last foray into Manhattan ... it lacks the energy and vibrancy of the best films to come out of the city in the past few years. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Terrio may use such accelerating devices as a handheld camera and split-screen editing, but his movie still feels as inert as the piano chords in Martin Erskine and Ben Butler's score. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: Cracking faults in these relationships occasion overwrought suspense: slow ascents of dark stairs, heavy silences, and surplus brow furrowing. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: 'We don't know how to be people of passion,' [Glenn Close] exclaims to a collection of rapt acting students, early in the film. She might as well be admonishing the movie's cast. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: None of it rings true, nor do precious affectations such as having one couple communicate with each other via walkie-talkies. Read more