Review: Boots Riley's 'I Love Boosters' Is a Surrealist Satire of Late Capitalism Starring Keke Palmer
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John Serba
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A review of Boots Riley's new film "I Love Boosters," a surrealist satire starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, and Taylour Paige as career shoplifters who steal expensive clothes and sell them cheap as socioeconomic protest in a late-capitalist world. The film is described as even wilder than Riley's debut "Sorry to Bother You," with a gonzo visual style and surrealist sci-fi elements.
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· 2 pulledNobody makes movies like Boots Riley, case file no. 2: I Love Boosters
Boosters is defined by its unpredictable nature, from its full-gonzo visual style to its hard lefts into surrealist sci-fi
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