The concept is brilliant and the characters, both benign and despicable, are a lot of fun to be around. The colour palette is lustrous, the dialogue is enthusiastically snappy, and the comedy is consistently effective.

| Jul 14, 2024

It's a brilliant mix of humor and shocking plot twists.

| Jul 8, 2024

Stanfield’s talent is undeniable; a method actor at heart and now should become a household name.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 16, 2022

If the ultimate goal of Sorry to Bother You is to expose the big-money puppeteers controlling our culture and turning everyday people into corporate, even literal slaves, then Riley was mostly successful.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 11, 2022

...Boots Riley goes for broke, and you'll either go for that or you won't.

| Original Score: 55/100 | Aug 22, 2021

So blazingly original, it demands to be seen, preferably with an audience that also doesn't know what it's in for.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 21, 2021

[Sorry to Bother You] offers a comically insightful look at racism and slavery.

| Jul 22, 2021

Boots Riley has a fresh and unique style that's all his own, and it's more than welcome in today's blockbuster-packed summers.

| Original Score: 3.5 / 5 | Jun 24, 2021

It will inspire a cult following and plenty of fans - but it is not everyone's cup of tea.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2021

A look at greed with an anticapitalistic approach.....highlighting slave work by dehumanizing workers.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Sorry To Bother You may very well bother you, but it is definitely not sorry about it.

| Feb 18, 2021

This rock-em-sock-em debut for musician-turned-director Boots Riley is wackier and wilder than anything else you're likely to see in a movie theater this year. That's a good thing, likely even a great one.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 16, 2020

Riley is telling us something other than his movie's message. He's announcing that he's a new cinematic voice to listen to...

| Dec 10, 2020

Bizarre, razor sharp, and uncomfortably hilarious all at once, Sorry to Bother You is an unforgettable film watching experience.

| Oct 8, 2020

Boots Riley's wild sci-fi flick charges hard out of the gate with social commentary, but lacks the horsepower to go the distance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 3, 2020

Boots Riley celebrates the surreal and satirical absurdity of our world, and it's so fantastically unique that it's unlike any film I've seen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 27, 2020

A brave and radical departure from many a filmmaking norm, highly recommended to those who appreciate chances taken and rules broken.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2020

Sorry to Bother You welcomes audiences to deconstruct its own inner-workings not just to better understand its rhetoric, but also the backhanded logic of its own reality.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

A bold indictment of capitalism, consumerism, and cultural appropriation

| Original Score: 3.25/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Your either going to love this or hate it, there simply is no compromised middle ground with this completely unhinged, ethereal take on corporate manipulation and slavery, class prejudices and racial perceptions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2020