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    Review: Boots Riley's 'Sorry to Bother You' is an arrestingly surreal satire on class rage and cultural identity

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Jul 06, 2018 4 minutes

    The title treatment for "Sorry to Bother You," Boots Riley's joyous dystopian cackle of a directing debut, has more personality than most movies. Designed by the children's book illustrator J. Otto Seibold in a blocky original font - let's call it "Dinosaur Tetris" - it conquers the screen in big capital letters and screaming shades of fuschia.

    It signals that the title of this arrestingly strange and provocative fantasia should be read sarcastically, even impudently. If ever you could distill the essence of a movie's tone into a typeface, this is it.

    It's worth paying attention to the various logos, graphics and chyrons in "Sorry to Bother You,"

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