Strong performances by [a] supporting cast keep this film energized through its very last scene

Full Review | May 3, 2023

Twenty-two years later, High Art...resonates simultaneously as a timeless meditation on love, loss and art and as a trenchant drama,

Full Review | Jun 24, 2021

Ally Sheedy plays Lucy with a sexy grime.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Jan 21, 2021

[Ally Sheedy's] excellent as Berliner.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2021

The film's treatment of women's sexuality is a nice contrast to the lesbian-bed-death clichés (and anti-chemistry) of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening in [Lisa] Cholodenko's more recent The Kids Are All Right.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2019

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.

Full Review | Apr 11, 2018

Clarkson's Greta... is wickedly funny, while Mitchell's ingénue convincingly combines puppyish idealism and steely ambition. But it is Sheedy's Lucy, nonchalantly sexy, sharply intelligent, tough and vulnerable, who is the film's heart and soul.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2016

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

Warmed-over Red Shoe Diaries episode wrapped in a blanket of pretension.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 7, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 19, 2008

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 9, 2005

Solid, sexy drama with a dash of wit. Fine performances especially by Clarkson.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2004