Hipsters
Leisure Time Features | Release Date: February 24, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
NPRElla TaylorFeb 24, 2012
The hipster moment may have faded fast through repression and attrition, but in Todorovsky's reading, it was crucially formative on today's Russian youth. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenFeb 21, 2012
The spirited young cast includes the luminous Oksana Akinshina, best known for her title role in Lukas Moodysson's devastating "Lilya 4-Ever," who still lights up the screen like few actresses in the world. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyApr 12, 2012
Hipsters is also kind of amazing, thanks to headlong enthusiasm and an endearing obliviousness to just how ghastly the whole thing keeps threatening to become. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoFeb 24, 2012
When it comes time for a Hollywood remake, Depp would make a great Mels. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreFeb 22, 2012
Light as a bubble, Hipsters suggests that age may catch up with everyone, but that there will always be people fighting against the current of conformity, even if they only express it via how they wear their hair. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneOct 24, 2011
An over-the-top Russian musical about hipsters set in 1950s Moscow, where getting a non-pastel-colored tie is a mafia-mediated operation and a saxophone is considered a concealed weapon? Yes, please. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen HoldenFeb 23, 2012
Who knows if anything remotely resembling the culture of Hipsters really existed? It's a musical, after all. In any case this movie, which won the 2009 Nika (the Russian Oscar) for best picture, is an endearing curiosity that, at 125 minutes, is as badly in need of a trim as the hair of its comically coiffed dandies. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfFeb 21, 2012
Hipsters is also a musical (in an intentionally naive "Absolute Beginners" vein), and while everything looks glinty and gorgeous, the story's political edge is dulled by excessive levity. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyKarina LongworthOct 27, 2011
Punch-drunk, decadently designed slice of eye candy. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJan 12, 2012
The first Russian musical in more than 50 years, Hipsters is appreciated best as a curiosity. Read full review
50
VarietyLeslie FelperinOct 24, 2011
Although a massive hit at home, taking approximately $16 million at the wickets, this great-looking but tonally uneven pic won't jive with audiences quite so well anywhere else. Read full review
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