The brash film-maker doesn\u2019t make it easy to love his gonzo agitprop. That\u2019s part of his whole appeal, really. He dares us to resist and gets away with it because he\u2019s such a compelling and necessary voice.<\/p>\n
The Sorry to Bother You director\u2019s brash and outrageously funny new film, led by Keke Palmer, can be a little too scattershot to make an impact<\/p>\n
Back in 2018, rapper and activist Boots Riley made his feature film debut with Sorry To Bother You<\/a>. It\u2019s a caustically funny satire about racial and economic disparity, following a telemarketer played by LaKeith Stanfield, who puts on a \u201cwhite voice\u201d to succeed. But it also has horse people. That was, for me at least, the point when Sorry To Bother You threatened to break the spell, even in an absurdist fun-house mirror of our fraught world that Riley makes his soapbox.<\/p>\n The brash film-maker doesn\u2019t make it easy to love his gonzo agitprop. That\u2019s part of his whole appeal, really. He dares us to resist and gets away with it because he\u2019s such a compelling and necessary voice.<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/356529a86452169904499d9997ecc1125382aced\/919_0_2247_1800\/master\/2247.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=21a52522504bebd40276a8618a6322b2\" "\\"I")
<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"