Topside

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Topside

2022,

1h 25m,

Drama

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80%

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Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five-year-old girl and her mother have claimed the abandoned tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are forced to flee aboveground into a brutal winter night, threatening their future as mother and daughter.

Critics Consensus

Topside's sobering take on a somewhat familiar story is elevated by a pair of powerful central performances.

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Nell Minow

RogerEbert.com

Mar 25, 2022

2/4

The setting plumbs the depths but the movie stays on the surface.

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Michael Nordine

Variety

Mar 25, 2022

Held and Farmer have natural onscreen chemistry, bringing an almost docudrama realism to their characters’ shared fate even as it teeters on tragedy.

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Sarah-Tai Black

Los Angeles Times

Mar 24, 2022

In the end, the most alluring aspect of “Topside” — its capacity for embodied feeling — is perhaps the one that was most cut short.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Aug 16, 2022

4.5/5

“Topside” embodies everything I love about independent cinema. It tells a fiercely intimate story without any obligations to studio guidelines or genre expectations.

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

Apr 8, 2022

10/10

Topside is a masterpiece of the marginalized world rarely seen. It represents a major cinematic achievement by very talented creators. It gets my highest recommendation.

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Soham Gadre

Film Inquiry

Apr 3, 2022

Topside is a movie that combines its aching childlike innocence, slowly being stripped away to the raw bone, with an unforgiving environment made and populated by negligent adults.

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Synopsis

Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five-year-old girl and her mother have claimed the abandoned tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are forced to flee aboveground into a brutal winter night, threatening their future as mother and daughter.

Director: Celine Held, Logan George
Producer: Anthony Bregman, Peter Cron, Kara Durrett, Jonathan Montepare, Melina Lizette, Josh Godfrey, Daniel Crown
Screenwriter: Logan George, Celine Held
Distributor: Vertical Entertainment
Production Co: ELO Films, Likely Story, K Period Media, Red Crown Productions, Level Forward
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 25, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 25m

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