Lakeith Stanfield plays Cassius, a good-hearted guy who feels like his life is getting away from him and thus tries his hand at telemarketing, failing at it (in a series of fantastic scenes in which his desk literally drops into the homes of whomever he is dialing) until a colleague (Danny Glover, interesting until the movie drops him entirely) recommends he use his “white voice” on calls. (Some of those moments are pretty giddy too.) The former far outnumbers the latter. ![]() There are also moments that will make you wonder who in the world gave this lunatic a camera. There are moments in Sorry To Bother You that will make you want to jump giddily around the theater. This is rapper and producer Boots Riley’s first movie, and it shows, in every possible way-good, bad, incredible, ridiculous-as if he didn’t know if he’d ever be able to make another one, so he threw every idea he ever had into this. ![]() ![]() 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 churlish to point out that the movie ends up careening gloriously out of control. Stars: Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, Stephen Yeun, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Terry Crews, Danny Glover
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