I Love Boosters review – Boots Riley’s absurdist shoplifting comedy is a mixed bag

The Sorry to Bother You director’s brash and outrageously funny new film, led by Keke Palmer, can be a little too scattershot to make an impact Back in 2018, rapper and activist Boots Riley made his feature film debut with Sorry To Bother You. It’s a caustically funny satire about racial and economic disparity, following a telemarketer played by LaKeith Stanfield, who puts on a “white voice” to succeed. But it also has horse people. That was, for me at least, the point when Sorry To Bother Yo...

By Radheyan Simonpillai