[F]or all its mis-steps, Rize gets by on enough jumping, pumping energy to fuel the national grid.

It's a well-known truth in the dance world that the body doesn't lie. As long as the characters in this film are dancing, we have little reason to doubt their sincerity. But once turned into talking heads, the dancers begin to sound like propagandists.

A vivid portrait of art rising from deprivation and social hopelessness.

As Paris Is Burning did with voguing, Rize celebrates a vital new art form; don't you dare blink.