<em>Sorry to Bother You </em>Is Fizzy, Flawed, and Fascinating
Boots Riley’s debut film takes plenty of bold storytelling swings, and the misses are as interesting as the hits.
Sometimes, the smartest dystopian fiction knows that you need to give the real world just a little tweak to make it scary. mostly seems to understand this: The film is a funny, harsh satire of race relations, the gig economy, and gentrification set in an America in which the volume is turned up to 11. The story’s heightened reality works best when it’s barely distinguishable from our own—though it starts to lose steam the more itThe movie is at times a mess, but a compelling one, and this debut from Boots Riley should herald a fascinating filmmaking career.
