Hipsters 2011

Hipsters

Critics Consensus

Breezy, colorful, and suffused with joy, Hipsters offers audiences an engaging Cold War musical told from the other side of the Iron Curtain.

80%

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90%

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Movie Info

Director:

Valeriy Todorovskiy

Cast & Crew

Anton Shagin

Oksana Akinshina

Maksim Matveyev

Valeriy Todorovskiy
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Critic Reviews for Hipsters

All Critics (25) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (5)

What is... wondrous, the chief repression that we see-and hear-is Stalinist hatred of jazz and American hip clothes.

June 19, 2013 | Full Review…

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic
Imagine Baz Luhrmann on borscht.

October 31, 2012 | Full Review…

Brandon Judell
indieWire
It's taken the Russian musical "Hipsters" four years to reach America. That's all right. It may take audiences four years to recover.

April 12, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Mark Feeney
Boston Globe
A candy-colored confection with a dark, bittersweet center.

April 6, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
Are you ready for a bright and breezy musical comedy from Russia?

February 24, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
An endearing curiosity that, at 125 minutes, is as badly in need of a trim as the hair of its comically coiffed dandies.

February 23, 2012 | Rating: 3/5

Stephen Holden
New York Times
I really wanted to enjoy this cause I really liked what the movie was going for and the numbers are often fun. But there were too many things that bothered me to enjoy it.

May 12, 2012 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine
You could get whiplash trying to keep up with everything, but I suspect that's what hyperactive director Valeriy Todorovskiy is going for...

May 3, 2012 | Rating: 3/4

Chris Hewitt
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Hipsters gets rubles for trying, but what's on screen is thin and obvious, the characters one-dimensional, the musical numbers and satire vapid.

April 10, 2012 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Gerald Peary
Boston Phoenix
The birth of the cool in the USSR forged into a rocking Soviet Graffitti that will heat the world.

March 17, 2012 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…

Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics
Or as Yakov Smirnoff would say: in Soviet Russia, party finds you!

February 24, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/5

Phil Hall
Film Threat
It's an intriguing spectacle, but there's no substance behind it.

February 24, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Robert Levin
amNewYork

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Audience Reviews for Hipsters

Dec 14, 2013

Hairspray in the USSR; i.e., fun and bright, but with stakes. Visual candy, catchy tunes, Lovers in a Dangerous Time plot, and only a touch heavy-handed in its political statement. Wobbles toward the end, but how many musicals don't? Eye-opening work... I kind of loved it.

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