![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, it’s a strained concept by this point in the series, but The First Purge effectively repurposes its premise here for a Carpenteresque madcap violent action film featuring a magnificent Black lead in the form of Insecure heartthrob Y’lan Noel. If you’ve missed it til now, watch it on Hulu before it’s gone, but it can also be streamed on Amazon. ![]() The film could neatly fall within a variety of genres, but its placement as sci-fi in specific joins it to a tradition of ambitious allegorical lab experiments like The Double or Putney Swope. Neatly sidestepping polemic grandstanding or pure slapstick, the film closes the sale with an unpredictable and constant sense of queasiness, and an aggressive but aesthetically beautiful arrangement of color on the screen, feeling like the entire box of creative crayons splashed into a 3.5 million dollar budget to uplift the Bay Area city of Oakland. Drastically, even experimentally comic, while still piercing and unnerving, Sorry To Bother You tangles with everything from wage-slavery to racism to eugenics to whitesplaining tech-bro CEOs. ![]() Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson headline a brilliant supporting cast in this absurdist sci-fi film. 2018 was a banner year for sci-fi, but there’s one film which continues to stick in my mind, providing a basis for rich and rewarding investigations on each re-watch: Boots Riley’s intrepid debut Sorry To Bother You. ![]()
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