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  Review by Sarah ★★★½ 10

  The horror of seeing "produced by Lin Manuel Miranda" after a gorgeous, if unplotted, musical odyssey through anticolonialism and Black queerness

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  Review by Karsten ★★★★

  keyboard jacket

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  Review by Frances Meh ★★★★ 6

  So I saw this great film at TIFF
  Dune?
  No it was a sci-fi about a powerful mineral resource 
  Sounds like Dune
  No it’s more about the locals throwing off the yoke of the colonial power extracting the resource
  So like Dune
  No like if you can harness this resource you gain access to massive amounts of information
  Like a Spice Agony?
  No man stop it, it’s not at all like that
  Because it really sounds like Dune
  No, there were more than 2 black people in it
  I see

  
  
  

  
  ~ Toronto International Film Festival #3 ~

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  Review by cookie ★★★★★ 4

  the music! the production design! not a single frame wasted. movement’s fluid, foreground’s alive, blocking’s exquisitely theatrical. what a vision!!! and gender as a spiritual journey … that spoke to me. second half was starting to lose me a little (thru no fault of its own!) the political commentary was just buried within such poetic language and this film(? epic poem? odyssey?) deserves more than one sit-thru to properly decode + excavate all meaning. a lot to unpack on a first watch, which could be alienating if you dont surrender yourself to it. obviously still worth the watch, no doubt the coolest movie ive seen in a long time. a sci fi musical if i ever did see one

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  Review by reibureibu 4

  Purging the evil from its digital tool, rewiring it to serve the subjugated and redirecting it against the subjugators. Dogmatism built up over centuries of rule are split by the atom and soon an entirely new array of futures becomes possible. Anti-technological technology; it is not inherent but in how we use them, and where one destroys the earth the other unites despite both wielding the same tool. Would they allow such things to exist if it meant those they subjugate could use them as well? Neptune Frost mines the inherent contradictions born out of colonial exploitation and how such enterprises are built on unspoken hypocrisy.

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  Review by emily ★★★★

  fuck mr google

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  Review by Robert Daniels ★★★★½ 1

  “Neptune Frost”—the dense Afrofuturist film from co-directors Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman—holds many resplendent identities at once: It’s a musical; it’s an intersex narrative; it’s a technological allegory espousing anticapitalist and anticolonialist views. It’s a collective dream coated in a blue lacquer dancing on the edge of something unrecognizable, something wholly transcendent. And it arrives with an exceptional display of bravura.

  The film’s nimbleness, marked by a brazenness suggesting creators who allow their imaginations to be the moth that reaches for the stars, is apparent from the jump when the camera pans across the graveled gray and orange ridges of a mine. One of the miners, Tekno, beholds a chunk of coltan, the metal used to power our cellphones and…

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  Review by Chris 🍉 ★★★★★ 1

  “To imagine hell is privilege.”

  Instantly one of my favorite soundtracks of any movie ever, hands down. One of the most unique things I’ve seen in modern cinema, to say it was a breath of fresh air would be an understatement. Showing noncomfortative bodies/gender expressions and unquestioning acceptance and love of them as integral to revolution/resistance due to the importance of unwavering connection in the face of violent adversity. Hard to pin down what is really being “said” about this due to the film not making much of anything explicit, not sure yet if it’s an overall strength or if it really was lacking in concrete substance. But it isn’t leaving a bad taste and I think everything else is…

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  Review by Mtume ★ 5

  Nah. Movies with no real politics outside of generalized empowerment quests end up being globs of unspecific malarkey. This movie is all broad strokes and hides behind Afro Futurism so it can’t take responsibility to really have an experience that really challenges the audience rather than make them feel like they did their good deed for the week and seen an African movie.

  Some of the music numbers are cool, and that’s the only time you actually can engage with the ideas, the other times the movie is spastic, refuses to ground itself in anything other than pizzaz and is just a plain snooze. I mean the ideas of Africa as a battle ground of the technological warfare that is…

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★★★

  “These motherfuckers don’t want to back down.”

  Simply put, Neptune Frost was a revelation. This film will be talked about for years to come with its electrifying music and stunning visuals.

  In the beginning, a coltan miner is struck, setting off a revolution. Those without authority raise their voice and have a vision to split governments and take power, but it goes way beyond that. Dimensions are chosen like cities and the costumes and makeup are simply remarkable and unforgettable.

  The film really goes beyond the issues of political greed and corruption and covers sexuality; its pulse beats with such vitality. It must be seen on the big screen to be believed and experienced. Congratulations to directors Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman for creating this masterwork.

  Neptune Frost will have a limited release June 3, 2022 to markets including New York City and Dallas, and will expand to other cities including Los Angeles on June 10, 2022.

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★ 1

  "What birth has severed, love will reconnect" -Some Lady,

  - 2022 Ranked: boxd.it/eWNQo
  - Sundance 2022: boxd.it/f5MjG

  Vibes.

  This is unique...I say unique a lot but this REALLY unique and interesting. The music is cool, the film is beautiful, and the script is bizarre to the point that it is hard to understand but oh my goodness VIBES.

  Good stuff.

  P.S. the co-director of this film made a song like 20 years ago called List of Demands and you should check it out.

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  Review by Paul ★★★ 1

  giving three stars to this to be nice but I don’t know the hell just happened. I zoned out early on so I was just enjoying the music at a certain point. It’s unique though. I’ll give it that