From the first frame, I knew I was hooked on Neptune Frost. This cyberpunk and afro-futurism musical is astounding. Its meditations on class struggle, gender politics, and sex are thought provoking...

| Jul 3, 2024

Mixing together anarchist politics and aesthetics to create something that feels punk and handmade.

| Jul 26, 2023

A playful mash-up from deep within Africa, part dystopian dream and part cyberpunk futurist vision, dispensing striking imagery, pulsing rapper rhythms and messages against the international system

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2022

We’re giving it to Rwandan director Anisia Uzeyman and American co-director Saul Williams for their dance-driven, genderqueer, Afrofuturist, system-smashing cosmic adventure.

| Dec 11, 2022

The film is certainly different, but it’s also strangely gripping even if not particularly likeable or approachable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 9, 2022

With their first film, funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign, Williams and Uzeyman have bypassed conventional storytelling for an aesthetically unique plea on behalf of the invisible individuals who make our wired world possible...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2022

… a miracle in independent filmmaking.

| Original Score: 18/20 | Dec 2, 2022

Regardless of what you’ll make of the story, which requires the utmost attention and is often mesmerising, it’s impossible not to be moved by the visuals and superb soundtrack.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 4, 2022

It’s weirdly fascinating, but at times tantalisingly slow and raw.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2022

It sometimes gets bogged down in turgid polemic, but what’s surprising is how supple and communitarian it stays.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2022

Watching this sci-fi punk, Afrofuturist musical is like entering another dimension.

| Sep 23, 2022

The film is a critique of the capitalist ravages visited on Burundi and its neighbors by a technology-obsessed society. It’s also a soaring, poetic vision of a transformative future, filled with abstract scenes of singing and partying.

| Aug 3, 2022

The narrative aspect, if one can be found, becomes irrelevant since we get lost with the hypnotic iconography and the musicalized poetry from the very beginning. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: B | Jul 21, 2022

Set in a futuristic Rwanda, the themes are as old as the hills - with colonialism, identity and self-determination chief among them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2022

This movie is a call to action, no less urgent for being a musical, and it wants us to hack the world.

| Jul 18, 2022

Unfortunately it degenerates into a sort of anchorless ideology, a lot of self-comforting anger and rhetoric and not a lot of depiction of alternative political structures or anything that might force the audience to learn something...

| Jul 14, 2022

...explores a strange dimension — a poetic, protesting echo of our own.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2022

... A musical science fiction smorgasbord that challenges our notions of what is film.

| Jul 13, 2022

A protest against Big Tech colonialism comes in a lo-fi visually fabulous package in this unique political performance project.

| Original Score: B-plus | Jul 10, 2022

Neptune Frost knows exactly what kind of movie it wants to be, follows its own path, makes its own music, and hits every note along the way.

| Jul 8, 2022