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

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

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

"Neptune Frost" is a blazingly original mood piece about humanity, technology, the Earth and our spirits and how they all tangle in rhythm, or out of rhythm, with each other.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 30, 2022

Neptune Frost is a musical, yes, but it’s almost like a tone-poem.

| Jun 16, 2022

It’s a difficult movie to describe with any elegance, which is a good thing, because what’s enriching about it exists more powerfully in images than in speech.

| Jun 15, 2022

It’s a sci-fi, Afrofuturistic story that is also a musical that takes place in the past, present, and future, while also spanning the wide depths of identity and innovation.

| Jun 14, 2022

Enchanting and immersive... a war cry that’s simultaneously a galvanizing call to action, a message of hope and a reminder that a different world is possible.

| Jun 10, 2022

The film Neptune Frost is best enjoyed as a thoroughly immersive experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2022

For all its defiant energy, the movie is far from utopian; the filmmakers’ visionary speculations are balanced by a chilling realism and a sense of political tragedy.

| Jun 6, 2022

To be alive is to try and find a way through the chaos of living, and Neptune Frost charts a path that tackles binary rigidity.

| Jun 5, 2022

It’s a collective dream coated in a blue lacquer dancing on the edge of something unrecognizable, something wholly transcendent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2022

Neptune Frost is messy and often feels held together with repurposed wire, but its idiosyncrasies and impassioned confrontation more than make up for the moments when its big ideas get tangled in its own web.

| Jun 2, 2022

Behold one of the most extraordinarily original cinema experiences of the year.

| Jun 2, 2022

A treasury of ideas and provocations — a pocket full of possibilities.

| Jun 2, 2022

Not since 'Zabriskie Point' has psychedelia and Marxism worked together so effectively on screen.

| Jun 1, 2022

It does not court our understanding, it does not make following easy, but it does whisper to us and spark connections. In that way, it is like a dream: fitful, feverish, promising.

| Feb 5, 2022

An Afrofuturist musical that's both a queer love story and a call to action, this is a great example of art that's revolutionary in form as well as subject.

| Jan 28, 2022

A vibrant act of cultural expression.

| Jan 27, 2022

Transmitting a massive download of ideas into one film, there's no doubt that Williams and Uzeyman have creativity to spare, and they deserve all the support they can get to share it with the world.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 28, 2021