Film Review of Liberty Heights
Year: 1999 Reviewer: Chris Docker
An unhurried movie set in early 1950's Baltimore, with love crosses highlighting anti-semitism and racism. It never really makes any major points on these issues, but rather sticks to storytelling. However, for a rambling story of this sort with no major events and no big punchline, something needs to be exceptional for it to rise above the average. The acting is competent but not exceptional. There are one or two good lines of dialogue but very few to make you sit up and think. The music is nice but doesn't ring in our ears afterwards. Levinson has made some excellent movies such as Wag the Dog, but he seems slightly unequal to this labour of love. The overall ambience and speed is reminiscent of movies like Magnolia but that had lots of special ingredients - this one, sadly, doesn't seem to - at least for me.
Rating: 5/10
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