Topsy-Turvy

Newsweek by David Ansen

Filled with delicious backstage drama, and superb actors reveling in the opportunity to play their 19th-century counterparts.

Slate by David Edelstein

A monument to process -- to the minutiae of making art -- Topsy-Turvy leaves you upside down and breathless.

Film.com by Ernest 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.

L.A. Weekly by F. X. Feeney

We never seem to be looking at actors, but at people; never at scenes, but at life unrehearsed.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Not only Mike Leigh's strongest film since "Naked" but a true show-making epic.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

A hive of broad, brilliant performances.

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Thoroughly researched, unobtrusively upholstered, this beautifully assured entertainment about Victorian England is a string of delights.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

Wildly entertaining, "Shakespeare in Love" minus the Bard and the babe, but with substantive style to burn.

USA Today by Mike Clark

One of the year's best movies and certainly its most delightful screen surprise.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

A triumph.