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Top Hat (1935)

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Top Hat (1935) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars Top Hat (1935) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
Overall Rating:3.5523
Avg Critic Score:3.5400

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Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Slant Magazine (Dan Callahan) Slant Magazine (Dan Callahan)
Every musical number works, and the mistaken identity plot is pleasant enough, even if there's too much emphatic dithering from the supporting players towards the end. ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Slant Magazine (Dan Callahan)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for rec.arts.movies.reviews (Max Scheinin) rec.arts.movies.reviews (Max Scheinin)
Top Hat, a superb Astaire-Rogers musical of the 30s is pretty damn hard to resist. I recently saw it on video and reveled in the singing and dancing, wonderful music and glorious acting. It's a sublime film, a real bliss-out. I'm suprised that with ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Max Scheinin)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Edinburgh U Film Society (Iain Harral) Edinburgh U Film Society (Iain Harral)
Top Hat is perhaps the archetypal Fred n' Ginger movie, with a fantastic Irving Berlin score ("Cheek to Cheek", "Isn't it a Lovely Day to be Caught in the Rain", 'Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails"), faultless Hermes Pan dance mutines which show exactly why ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Iain Harral)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for El Criticon (Antonio Mendez Casanova) El Criticon (Antonio Mendez Casanova)
Lo de siempre en la maravillosa pareja Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers danzando para la RKO. Gloriosos números de baile, magníficas canciones (obra de Irving Berlin) como "Cheek To Cheek", "Piccolino" o "Isn't This A Lovely Day to Be Caught In The Rain"; ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at El Criticon (Antonio Mendez Casanova)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten) Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Hands down, this is the best Astaire-Rogers musical ever. Nothing more needs to be said. ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)

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Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer) Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
The splendid artifice that was the movie musical of the 1930s probably hit its apex right here. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers twirl their way through a typically silly farce of mistaken identity to the tunes of Irving Berlin ("Cheek to Cheek," in ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Cinematic Reflections (Derek Smith) Cinematic Reflections (Derek Smith)
Top Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it. ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Cinematic Reflections (Derek Smith)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for LeisureSuit.net (--) LeisureSuit.net (--)
See, Astaire's as macho a guy actor as any Charles Bronson or Lee Marvin, only he gets the girl and saves the day by singing and dancing, and being witty and always keeping his cool and always being one step ahead of the other guy. He's sort of a ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at LeisureSuit.net (--)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks) Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Top Hat (1935) is one of the great 30s dance musicals, and possibly the best and most profitable Astaire and Rogers musical ever, with wonderful, magical ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Decent Films Guide (Steven D. Greydanus) Decent Films Guide (Steven D. Greydanus)
The quintessential Fred-and-Ginger vehicle… typically escapist Depression-era fare… [but] whenever Fred and Ginger are in motion, the magic is timeless. ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Decent Films Guide (Steven D. Greydanus)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice Magazine (--) Boxoffice Magazine (--)
"Top Hat" with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in top spots should top boxoffice records throughout the country. Yarn deals with the misunderstood husband and the mistaken identity idea with Ginger Rogers thinking Astaire the philandering husband of her ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (--)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Classic Film Guide (--) Classic Film Guide (--)
One of the best musicals ever. ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Classic Film Guide (--)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Box Office Prophets (--) Box Office Prophets (--)
Just the names conjure up a magical world of sophistication, where all the women wear long, flowing gowns, all the men wear tails, the music is dreamy, the conversation is witty, and everybody lives happily ever after. Astaire and Rogers only made ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Box Office Prophets (--)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Tech, MIT (MIT) Tech, MIT (MIT)
If you like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, you're going to love Top Hat. This film is quintessential Fred and Ginger, from the initial verbal sparring and mistaken identities that keep them apart, to the wonderful tap and partner dances which reconcile ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Tech, MIT (MIT)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz) Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Delightful. ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Time Out (--) Time Out (--)
The third Astaire-Rogers movie (not counting Flying Down to Rio) and one of the best, with a superlative Irving Berlin score (it includes 'No Strings', 'Isn't This a Lovely Day?', 'Top Hat, White Tie and Tails' and 'Cheek to Cheek'), and equally ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Time Out (--)
Top Hat (1935) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Bright Lights Film Journal (--) Bright Lights Film Journal (--)
Top Hat inflated every device of the previous three Astaire/Rogers picture to the bursting point. With each film, the icing on the cake got thicker and thicker. Top Hat was pure butter-cream. Cake this rich was never baked again. ...read the complete Top Hat movie review at Bright Lights Film Journal (--)
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