SORRY TO BOTHER YOU.

AuthorBrown, Elizabeth Nolan
PositionFILM - Movie review - Brief article

Bug-eyed middle managers out to smash unionizing efforts. Dastardly corporate bigwigs with wildly evil efficiency plans. Cluelessly racist white people and casually brutal cops. Sorry To Bother You, a new film from screenwriter/activist/rapper Boots Riley, is packed with stock villains of leftist lore.

But don't let that keep you away from this dark comedy. Sorry To Bother You never sacrifices story or laughs for sanctimony and never relies on easy, binary interpretations of culpability as we watch rising telemarketing star Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) and his girlfriend Detroit (Tessa...

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