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By Will Leitch (411) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 05 Jul 2018

Sorry to Bother You has so many ideas busting out of every seam, so much ambition, so much it so urgently wants to say, that it feels almost…

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By Kathy Fennessy (88) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 05 Jul 2018

Riley's ability to transfer his leftist politics intact from turntable to screen is truly miraculous…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 05 Jul 2018

Amid its outrageous premise and uneven execution, the visually inventive satire is laced with relevant and provocative socioeconomic observations,…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 05 Jul 2018

Sociopolitically charged and boasted by fantastic performances, the film is creatively, technically and narratively superb…

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By Soraya Nadia Mcdonald (30) for The Undefeated (30) on 04 Jul 2018

Riley's film thrums with the energy and unnecessary tics of a filmmaker itching to empty the contents of his imagination into one crazy, not-all-together…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 04 Jul 2018

Ultimately, Sorry to Bother You does what every great first film should: it heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent and generates enthusiasm…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Jul 2018

Most of the film, which also has links to Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich, plays like a variation on some of Spike Lee’s more scabrous…

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By Jeffrey Edalatpour (80) for MetroActive (325) on 04 Jul 2018

Each shift in tone is Riley's way of both heightening reality... and commenting on an economic hierarchy that disadvantages people of color…

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By Noah Gittell (113) for Washington City Paper (500) on 04 Jul 2018

Throughout the politics and pornography, it's Stanfield's miraculously steady performance that keeps the film grounded…

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By Jordan Riefe (35) for Truthdig (56) on 04 Jul 2018

Occasionally juvenile, heavy-handed and gimmicky, Sorry to Bother You isn't perfect, but it's seldom at its worst…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 04 Jul 2018

It comes at you hard, bright, and fast. This is an angry, explicitly funny movie that refuses to conform to a three-act structure…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 04 Jul 2018

High social satire fueled by a sharp understanding of the politics of our time and the human nature of all times…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 04 Jul 2018

Sorry to Bother You takes too long to get to a payoff that's impressively brash but too surreal to function as satire…

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By Justin Charity (6) for The Ringer (285) on 04 Jul 2018

Boots Riley disavows subtlety at every turn, and his movie is better off for this decision-Sorry to Bother You synthesizes the incisive and…

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By Amy Taubin (175) for Artforum (101) on 04 Jul 2018

The movie is a hilariously unhinged satire, without-and this is the extraordinary part-even a hint of didacticism…

Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 Jul 2018

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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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Jul 2018

I will be very clear with you, dear readers, that this surrealist comic moral tale, about a poor man selling his soul to ascend in a golden…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 04 Jul 2018

Riley's approach is far too scattershot for some totality of vision to arrive…

Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Jul 2018

Not every joke here lands, and not every experiment proves successful, but it scarcely matters…

Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018)

By Jonathan W. Hickman (551) for Daily Film Fix (355) on 03 Jul 2018

What starts as a clever comedy involving a guy who discovers an edgy superpower, becomes a crazed science fiction film reminiscent of indie…

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