Limonov: The Ballad
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61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMay 21, 2024
The film’s excess of energy almost never burns out, pummeling you with the bacchanal brewing inside its lead. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 21, 2024
It’s an exhilarating, alarming look at that much discussed subject: the Russian soul. Read full review
80
The Film VerdictDeborah YoungMay 21, 2024
Conceptually staggering. Read full review
75
The Film StageLeonardo GoiMay 21, 2024
Serebrennikov’s English-language debut is as muddled as its subject, but––for all these glaring and convenient omissions––it is also one of the director’s strongest in quite some time, a film whose form feels wholly in service of the story and man at its center. Read full review
70
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 21, 2024
Certainly the film comes across in its revved-up, fragmented, ramshackle way as a modern Russian epic – with Limonov as a unique anomalous individual, yet at the same time somehow exemplifying the contradictions and neuroses of a tormented modern nation. He also comes across as a human, flawed figure, self-aggrandising, self-pitying, sometimes helplessly romantic. Read full review
60
Time OutDave CalhounMay 20, 2024
As history, I’d take this account with a pinch of salt – it feels too enamoured by certain elements of its antihero’s story and blinkered to others – but as an exercise in capturing the man’s self-engineered legend, it’s energetic and engrossing. Read full review
50
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodMay 21, 2024
If the movie only serves as an appetizer for Liminov’s fascinating life, that’s something, I guess. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinMay 21, 2024
A work that is very recognizably Serebrennikov’s, which is to say it’s nostalgic for the Soviet era, outlandishly celebratory of the callow charms of bohemian youth (compare with his pop-music-themed Leto), baggy to the point of undisciplined (see Petrov’s Flu) and full of long, fluid, roaming, handheld single takes (applicable to nearly all his works). Read full review
30
VarietyJessica KiangMay 21, 2024
Given all its omissions and elisions, and the sense of coolness-cosplay that permeates this noisy but lifeless film, “Limonov” might not be a total misapprehension of the mercurial, charismatic and infuriating Eduard Limonov, but it is at least a mispronunciation. Read full review
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