In the long-awaited follow-up to his 2018 surreal satire Sorry To Bother You, Boots Riley turns his iconoclastic gaze upon the inequities of globalised late capitalism through the kaleidoscopic point of view of a group of shoplifters who find bizarre new ways to fight the power of an evil fashion designer.
Naomi Ackie
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..transplants a familiar SF / horror trope on to the gym-toned body of the superhero movie, and although it musters a few insights into the ugliness of human vanity, it’s chomping at the bit to unleash its malleable anti-hero so he can wreak his revenge.