Sorry to Bother You

chanandre

[San Francisco's Alamo Drafthouse]*US of A*|Boots Riley in attendance served us a shot of stories surrounding its troubled & lengthy production]"Don't do the thing.| What thing?| The thing where you fuck it all up". I feel as sad and wrecked, surprised & mesmerized, as I did after Annihilation. Who said "Get Out' on acid" wasn't wrong". I'd go a step further (but also a step aside/to the side) - it's a bit more than▽

Wee Hunk

Often social satire is laugh on the inside funny. You think, "How clever." This is laugh on the outside funny. It's absolutely crazy unpredictable. Lakeith is so good on Atlanta, so it's great to see him branch out.

Christopher M. Jones

I wish this movie had as many narrative jukes as stylistic ones--for all its weirdness, the plot and characters are kind of rote--but it's great to have an honest, modern film about what it's like to be broke

Carlos Filipe Freitas

Even if the deadpan humor doesn’t always triumph, there is some mordant social commentary expressed with a satirical posture, which sort of replaces it. Stanfield is a wonderful revelation, a crucial element for the film’s pulsation.

Duncan Gray

A sign of the times when surrealism has to try this hard to be freaky—even freakiness demands finesse, and its unapologetic zeitgeist stab is a gift and a curse. This is most valuable as an authentic expression of the Bay Area, where freedom is also a gift/curse, and where Silicon Valley fights post-60s radicalism in a plot that makes the ramblings of a stranger outside a BART station signify with righteous paranoia.

Ghostman

Sorry to Bother You is an incredible movie with some of the most biting satire and clear-cut social commentary in a mainstream American picture in years. I cannot write about the rest as it is too good to spoil and what results might be the best American film I've seen so far this year. A truly revolutionary work of comedy in every sense of the phrase.

Ethan

This is an extraordinary, original, hilarious, and at times a frightening film. Boots Riley delivers a magnificent picture that has a lot to say about the state of the world. It may be an alternate reality but it closely reflects that of our own.

Zac Weber

Boots Riley is not afraid to color outside the lines in this truly original film. I wasn’t crazy about the twist at the end, but wow, this is a pogo stick of colors and ideas jumping off the screen.