Metacritic reviews

There's much subtle beauty in the last movie completed by Merchant Ivory Productions before Merchant's untimely death.

The acting is uniformly superb.

Director Chris Terrio confidently delivers a solid first feature, but sometimes doesn’t always engage in the characters’ inner demons, which could have made an even better film given the cast and material.

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.

An entertaining ensembler marbled with wit and heartache.

In this study of keeping up appearances while everything falls apart, the stakes never seem as high as the title suggests.

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.

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.

Terrio keeps the multiple stories flowing smoothly, and the setting goes a long way to justify the web of fortuitous interconnections -- New York is the ultimate two-degrees-of-separation town.

As enjoyable as Close is, Heights as a whole is a mannered simulation that only occasionally and accidentally feels like real New York life.