Example sentences for: topsy-

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  • The second half of Topsy-Turvy is the best thing Mike Leigh has ever done.

  • The critics gripe a bit but still give a standing ovation to Mike Leigh's ( Secrets and Lies ) new film, about a short span in the lives and work of Gilbert and Sullivan as they compose and stage The Mikado . "Only a lunatic would call Topsy-Turvy , with its lame first hour and host of loose ends, a masterpiece, but by the finale I was ready to have myself committed" (David Edelstein, Slate ). It's "one of those films that create a mix of erudition, pageantry and delectable acting opportunities, much as Shakespeare in Love did last year," and it "vigorously and amusingly explore[s] what it means for an artist to renew his energies by returning to square one" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Several note its slow start and general disorganization: "[I]t teases us with the feeling that Leigh had a basic plan for the picture and never realized it" (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). (Click to read the rest of Edelstein's review in

  • Topsy-Turvy turns into something other than the Gilbert and Sullivan story: a portrait of life in the theater.

  • Topsy-Turvy leaves you upside down and breathless.

  • Topsy-Turvy certainly won't, and probably not Magnolia . Subtitled films and documentaries may not play in their states . Dan Talbott of New Yorker Films told me the average subtitled film makes 85 percent of its North American gross in nine theaters .


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