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

| Jun 19, 2013

Imagine Baz Luhrmann on borscht.

| Oct 31, 2012

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2012

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 6, 2012

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2012

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 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.

| Feb 23, 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.

| Original Score: B | Feb 23, 2012

While everything looks glinty and gorgeous, the story's political edge is dulled by excessive levity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2012

Aside from what we get in the big dance scene, the songs are of little interest, and each one feels like an intrusion.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2012

Todorovsky cleverly indicates how every generation holds bragging rights to its own unique brand of youthful defiance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 1, 2011

Raucous and vibrant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2011

The film makes a concession in the way its love affair progresses toward melodrama, but it never loses its fondness for the absurd, and the wicked.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 24, 2011