Liberty Heights
666
Drama
It is Baltimore in 1954 and everything is changing. In this year, school desegregation is happening for the first time, bringing black and white children from different neighborhoods into the same classrooms. In this year, the dawning of rock'n'roll is giving teenagers their first slice of a musical world that will become uniquely their own. In this year, the influx of automobiles becomes a powerful force in America, allowing people the ... [+]
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United States | Time | "Seems to encompass all the humor, sadness and weirdness of ordinary life in an utterly winning, morally acute way" | POS |
United States | Newsweek | "A languorous, funny and lovingly detailed memory film." | POS |
United States | Chicago Reader | "Told from too many perspectives, the narrative puts suspense above substance, and its social consciousness seems contrived" | NEG |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "A mature, accomplished piece of work, both funny and deeply felt, personal cinema of the best kind...Levinson has made the memory film we always hoped he would" | POS |
United States | The Washington Post | "Demonstrates what writer-director Levinson does best: evoke the sights, smells and atmosphere of his youth with intelligence, humor and a keen sense of social perspective" | POS |
United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "Emerges as an accurate memory of that time when the American melting pot, splendid as a theory, became a reality" | POS |
United States | Slate | "I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen." | NEU |
United States | Miami Herald | "This is a small, intimate movie bound to get lost in the holiday shuffle, but its pleasures are worth seeking out." | POS |
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