One of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise.
90
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Thoroughly researched, unobtrusively upholstered, this beautifully assured entertainment about Victorian England is a string of delights.
90
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
We never seem to be looking at actors, but at people; never at scenes, but at life unrehearsed.
90
NewsweekDavid Ansen
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Filled with delicious backstage drama, and superb actors reveling in the opportunity to play their 19th-century counterparts.
90
Film.comErnest Hardy
Film.comErnest Hardy
Leigh 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.
90
SlateDavid Edelstein
SlateDavid Edelstein
A monument to process -- to the minutiae of making art -- Topsy-Turvy leaves you upside down and breathless.
90
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Not only Mike Leigh's strongest film since "Naked" but a true show-making epic.