If you can disregard the derivativeness, this has some decent music and charismatic performances, and it provides some insights into the Western aspirations of Soviet youth culture.

| Mar 25, 2020

An incredibly imagined film.

| Oct 1, 2019

Don't let the premise intimidate you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2019

A blaze of black-and-white with amped-up sound.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2019

An earnest portrait of a little-known era in music history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2019

Maybe you had to be there, but it's a movie's job to take us, and this one gets only partway.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 1, 2019

If these bands aren't your jam, you're in for a bit of a slog.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 7, 2019

Leto feels like a dream of freedom, carried along on the New Wave sounds of David Bowie and Talking Heads, and full of yearning for the country to loosen up a bit.

| Jun 6, 2019

Weaving a glancing love triangle into a poignant observation on the waxing and waning of creativity, Serebrennikov revels in radiant black-and-white scenes of urban grit.

| Jun 6, 2019

An ode to a world without boundaries.

| May 30, 2018

Far from an angry political screed, it feels both removed from its fraught larger context and shrewdly, poignantly attuned to it.

| May 15, 2018

Even if Leto doesn't trumpet any obvious political agenda, it still feels dangerous, like a sidelong glance that shoots daggers.

| May 15, 2018

Never manages to convey what was so radical or pivotal about the movement, nor why anyone should care.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2018

A loose, ambling, sometimes obnoxiously stylized biopic of Soviet singer-songwriter and Kino frontman Viktor Tsoi, who died young and beloved.

| Original Score: B- | May 12, 2018

Its first hour is charged with energy, but as time goes on... elements that felt playful drop away for a more straightforward drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 11, 2018

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov's film turns Leningrad's early-'80s rock boom into a winking 24 Hour Party People-like doodle.

| May 11, 2018

For all of its candied sketchiness, Leto nails the feeling -- or the memory -- of finding yourself in a world that isn't afraid of who you might become.

| Original Score: B | May 10, 2018

Only sporadically finds the sweet spot, landing on stray moments of both human tenderness and musical euphoria in a bemusing blizzard of assorted characters, styles and songs that often tips over into outright kitsch.

| May 10, 2018

Ultimately too repetitive and self-indulgent to justify its long running time...

| May 10, 2018

Not a lot actually happens in Leto. There are some beautifully fluid performance sequences...

| May 10, 2018