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100It is one of the year's best films.
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100Some movies delight you. Some stimulate and provoke. Some enlighten and inform. And some simply hand you a rousing good time-- does all of that and more.
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100Brilliantly acted, sumptuously filmed, and overflowing with mellifluous music.
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100A triumph.
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100Part of the appeal of Topsy-Turvy is its generosity about human folly and shortcomings. Its wistfulness is very touching.
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100One of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise.
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100A tribute to anyone who ever picked up a score, a pen, a paintbrush or a grease pencil - or a movie camera.
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100Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises.
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100A masterful film about the magic of performance and the foibles of the artists behind it.
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91It's as full a movie as you can imagine -- exhausting and exhilarating and continually fascinating.
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90We never seem to be looking at actors, but at people; never at scenes, but at life unrehearsed.
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90The year's most beguilling and touching surprise. Bravo.
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90Not only Mike Leigh's strongest film since "Naked" but a true show-making epic.
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90Leigh and his solid cast make sure that inside jokes translate to a broad audience, and that their rendering of the back-stage drama is smart, engrossing and often very funny.
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One of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as "Shakespeare in Love."
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90Filled with delicious backstage drama, and superb actors reveling in the opportunity to play their 19th-century counterparts.
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90A monument to process -- to the minutiae of making art -- Topsy-Turvy leaves you upside down and breathless.
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90This beautifully crafted and lively romp around the 1880s stage world should enjoy its longest life as a vid classic.
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90A 160 minute work of sustained brilliance and delicacy.
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90Thoroughly researched, unobtrusively upholstered, this beautifully assured entertainment about Victorian England is a string of delights.
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89Wildly entertaining, "Shakespeare in Love" minus the Bard and the babe, but with substantive style to burn.
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88A joyous, amazingly detailed paean to imagination and personal expression that dares -- and succeeds -- to illustrate one of the most mysterious enigmas of all: the creative process.
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88A hive of broad, brilliant performances.
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88Revels in the sensual pleasure of music while capturing brilliantly the tension that grips any theater company before the curtain goes up.
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88Mike Leigh's great big, superbly performed homage to the creative process.
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83At 160 minutes, it's a bit long and uneventful for anyone who is not at least a moderate fan of the musicals.
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81Topsy-Turvy is flawless, borne along by a savagely witty screenplay that Leigh directs like the gears of a clock.
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80A bit longer than it might be, a bit more attached to its digressions than we might wish. But the length does encourage the feeling that we've been through the whole creative process with Gilbert and Sullivan .
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70A loving, gently funny and slightly claustrophobic tribute to theatrical life.
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63In the end, it's the snatches of music, mangled as it is, and the mechanics of staging it, in the absence of Leigh's usual raw, urgent psychic collisions, that keep Topsy-Turvy from seeming merely a gorgeous wax museum.
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50But there's so much more of the very, very British Topsy-Turvy that just seems so stuffy and inert.
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CherylC.10What an extraordinary evocation of an era, the theater and the creative process generally. A thoroughly enjoyable, wonderfully well done production!