The New York Times by Brandon Yu

Disco Boy is a lean but sweepingly ambitious film crafted with formal rigor.

Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

Lack of clarity, it turns out, is what makes Disco Boy so enjoyable, and imbues it with gravitas.

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

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.

Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney

While Disco Boy doesn’t entirely weave all its threads to satisfying effect, the film crackles with ideas.

Variety by Guy Lodge

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.

Film Threat by Alex Saveliev

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.

The Irish Times by Tara Brady

Themes of imperialism and exploitation add background textures to three muscular performances and a mysterious cinematic adventure.

The Observer (UK) by Wendy Ide

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.

IndieWire by Ben Croll

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.

Wall Street Journal by Zachary Barnes

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.