Disco Boy
Big World Pictures | Release Date: February 2, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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90
The New York TimesBrandon YuFeb 1, 2024
Disco Boy is a lean but sweepingly ambitious film crafted with formal rigor. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneFeb 26, 2023
Lack of clarity, it turns out, is what makes Disco Boy so enjoyable, and imbues it with gravitas. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeApr 2, 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. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyMar 29, 2024
Themes of imperialism and exploitation add background textures to three muscular performances and a mysterious cinematic adventure. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlex SavelievFeb 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. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 21, 2023
Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese makes a really stylish debut with Disco Boy, a visually thrilling, ambitious and distinctly freaky adventure into the heart of imperial darkness, or into something else entirely: the heart of an alternative reality, or a transcendent new self. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyFeb 21, 2023
While Disco Boy doesn’t entirely weave all its threads to satisfying effect, the film crackles with ideas. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 21, 2023
Even when Disco Boy threatens to be too much or too little, however, Rogowski’s strange, sparse, plaintive performance keeps its soul intact, and its most poignant query afloat above all the flash and dazzle and neon lights: just how much of themselves people will sacrifice for a paper identity. Read full review
75
IndieWireBen CrollFeb 21, 2023
At a taut and elliptical ninety minutes, a couple of awkward final steps hardly feel like fatal flaws. Getting in, getting down, and getting out as style hopping sizzle reel, Disco Boy heralds a promising new talent who totally has the moves. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesFeb 1, 2024
To his latest picture, Giacomo Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy, Mr. Rogowski brings his typically deep interiority—one that tends to break out into the world in unpredictable ways. The film isn’t equal to his talents, but it gets by on style, vigor and some big ideas. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreJan 17, 2024
It’s a somewhat unfocused narrative, relying on music and “disco” dance as a bonding device, one of a few novel touches in a story that’s all-too-familiar. Read full review
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