Disco Boy is a riveting and visceral belter of a film with, unsurprisingly, a terrific lead performance from Franz Rogowski.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Abbruzzese’s style drenches from the start, immersive in the dreamy fashion that bespeaks cinema more than mere plot-fashioned moviemaking. Lyrical yet highly controlled.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Gorgeous and dreamlike drama sees two men with differing ideas of freedom be forever changed through one violent moment

| Original Score: 4 | Jun 2, 2024

The cumulative effect is an overpowering visual experience conveying hope for humane personal and global relationships.

| May 1, 2024

If there’s vacillation in general at work, the slippery nature of the film, greased with the sweat of physical and metaphorical dance, remains beguiling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 14, 2024

But what the Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese, on his feature debut, has done with this hoary premise is extraordinary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2024

While the plot itself is a little nebulous, the atmosphere that Abbruzzese creates, through a hypnotic, pulsing electronic score and Rogowski’s febrile presence, is unnerving and intense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2024

Disco Boy operates like a trippy fever dream, its heavy themes graspable in moments of blissed out chaos...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2024

DISCO BOY is a stunning new entry into the canon. In his awareness of silences and his own form, Rogowski once again proves himself as one of the most captivating and heartbreaking actors working today.

| Mar 1, 2024

Disco Boy drives by with a certain striking aesthetic that can be hypnotic, and Rogowski is a sufficiently charismatic actor, enough to generate empathy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 21, 2024

This is often a knockout of a debut feature, its vivid, confident gambits embracing everything from infrared photography and three distinct dance sequences to a squadron of soldiers singing “Non, je ne regrette rien.”

| Feb 16, 2024

With a few psychedelic twists and turns, and some mysticism, it really gets to you in the end -- and the score is extraordinary.

| Feb 13, 2024

Don’t expect the Village People to show in this arresting debut. In fact, leave all expectations at the popcorn stand. He’s striving to expose the guarded interiority of his characters, & with Louvart’s aid & some trippy editing, he achieves that goal.

| Feb 10, 2024

It’s an incredible filmmaking debut, and an unpredictable one as well, in which Franz Rogowski continues to prove he’s one of this generation’s most intriguing actors.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 8, 2024

This double narrative of the French Foreign Legion develops an oddly detached rhythm as we get deeper and deeper into the story of one of its main characters.

| Feb 8, 2024

Disco Boy, directed by Giacomo Abbruzzese, is about the search for independence and its subsequent consequences. ... In short, a stunning piece with much to say, and decidedly human.

| Feb 6, 2024

Disco Boy is not your average war drama, or sociopolitical study, or character dissection, or psychedelic trip. It’s all of those things, and Giacomo Abbruzzese wouldn’t have it any other way.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 5, 2024

The writing is too vague, the direction too deliberately avoids any commitment to coherence, and if there is a deeper meaning in Disco Boy than what is seen on the screen at any given time, it eludes me totally.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 5, 2024

Disco Boy doesn’t quite work, though thanks to some quality craftsmanship and the always-fantastic Franz Rogowski, it does come close.

| Feb 4, 2024

Disco Boy makes up for its predictability with its haunting trance-like collage of scenes, with cinematography that is so spellbinding, it'll leave you watching long after the credits roll.

| Feb 3, 2024