Critic Reviews

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  'Hipsters" practically vibrates with zeal and joy.

• Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

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

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  A candy-colored confection with a dark, bittersweet center.

• V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  Are you ready for a bright and breezy musical comedy from Russia?

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  An endearing curiosity that, at 125 minutes, is as badly in need of a trim as the hair of its comically coiffed dandies.

• Ella Taylor, NPR

  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.

• Brandon Judell, indieWIRE

  Imagine Baz Luhrmann on borscht.

• Austin Kennedy, Sin Magazine

  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.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

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

• Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix

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

• Ron Wilkinson, Monsters and Critics

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

• Phil Hall, Film Threat

  Or as Yakov Smirnoff would say: in Soviet Russia, party finds you!

• Robert Levin, amNewYork

  It's an intriguing spectacle, but there's no substance behind it.

• Alison Willmore, AV Club

  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.

• Kelly Vance, East Bay Express

  Lightweight but watchable musical confection.

• Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

  Like the excellent recent documentary My Perestroika, this film is suffused with an uneasy nostalgia for the Communist heyday: simpler, more innocent, yet somehow wilder, with more at stake.

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