Sorry To Bother You is often wildly funny, and if its broad arc is familiar stuff about a down-on-his-luck everyman experiencing success but at what cost, at least the plot specifics are unpredictable by dint of Riley’s imagination
exploding with infectious originality, Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You may be the most wonderfully bizarre film of 2018; it's a timely, scalpel-sharp social satire with big laughs and even bigger ideas
Boots Riley makes an ambitious bow as writer-director with Sorry to Bother You, a blithely messy absurdist satire about African-American identity in a social climate [that] scores points for originality and wacky creativity
a no-mercy satire that gets up in your face, breaks all the rules – and then invents new rules so it can break them too; Sorry to Bother You introduces a filmmaker in a creative fever. Summer has found its real fireworks
