Sorry to Bother You

Riley’s film is a welcome hand grenade of subversive power that often reminded me of another incendiary film, Terry Gilliam’s classic "Brazil."

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‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire?

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Sorry to Bother You is a WTF comedy that explodes with originality

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It’s a provocative, serious, ridiculous, screwy concoction about whiteface, cultural code-switching, African-American identities and twisted new forms of wage slavery, beyond previously known ethical limits.

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Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” is an adrenalin-shot of a comedy and a fearless dissection of identity politics, corporate malevolence, and the American tendency to look the other way when confronted with horror.

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There simply isn’t much more to discuss without spoiling the imaginative scenario Riley has presented to the world, although production designer Jason Kisvarday deserves substantial praise for creating an environment that is just one step away from today. Beyond that, we only suggest you prepare yourself for something truly unexpected.

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Sorry to Bother You does often signal the arrival of a fresh new filmmaking voice, even if the film overextends its welcome.

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Nothing can prepare you for Sorry to Bother You, a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

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Atlanta’s Lakeith Stanfield headlines the inventive, sometimes exhausting satire Sorry To Bother You

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Boots Riley’s brilliant, take-no-prisoners comedy skewers social norms, racial strife and the media – then things get really weird

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Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson star in this double-barreled satire about race and power

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Sorry to Bother You May Be the Most Culturally Relevant Movie of the Year

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Laura Dern digs deep in the most powerful and disturbing of Sundance’s potential winners

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Deliriously creative and ambitious to a fault, Boots Riley's gonzo debut extends the rapper's outspoken social critique to the big screen.

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The film is unmistakably alive to the humiliations of the social systems that keep the lower classes in their place.

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Atlanta’s Lakeith Stanfield plays a conflicted call-centre drone in Boots Riley’s freewheeling comedy, a patchy but impressively punk-rock affair

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Lakeith Stanfield plays a black telemarketer who shimmies up the corporate ranks by finding his inner "white voice," setting off alarms with his activist girlfriend Tessa Thompson in Boots Riley's satire.

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