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\"\"I Love Boosters<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Neon\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 105 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong sexual content, nudity, language throughout, brief drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Boots Riley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Boots Riley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tune-Yards\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Natasha Braier\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 22, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, Demi Moore, Kerris Dorsey, Jason Ritter, Kara Young, Jermaine Fowler, Alan Z, Najah Bradley, Eric Andre, Adam DeVine, Kate Berlant (voice), Viggo Mortensen (voice).<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0The hardest part of writing reviews is coming up with an opening that isn\u2019t a repeat of one I\u2019ve used before. It also has to be clever and attention-grabbing. I thought of three for I Love Boosters<\/strong>, a new comedy from writer-director Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You) that defies explanation or reason. I\u2019m going to use them all. You tell me which one you like best. Here we go.<\/p>\n

(1) The inmates have definitely taken over the asylum in I Love Boosters<\/strong>. In a nutshell, it\u2019s insanity captured on film.<\/p>\n

(2) I predict the new Boots Riley film I Love Boosters<\/strong> will be the next Big Trouble in Little China. Hear me out. Like the 1986 John Carpenter cult favorite, it\u2019s not just one thing; it\u2019s a lot of things. It\u2019s a crazy blend of different genres and wild ideas. Like BT in LC, it\u2019s probably going to bomb in theaters. And like BT in LC, it will likely find a loyal audience once it hits the home entertainment market. That\u2019s how cults are generally born.<\/p>\n

(3) A recent ad campaign for Volkswagen Atlas describes the SUV as being designed for \u201cfamilies that don\u2019t fit in a box\u201d. The new movie I Love Boosters<\/strong> is for audiences that don\u2019t fit in box. That\u2019s because it doesn\u2019t fit neatly in one genre. It starts off one way and goes off-road before it reaches the highway.<\/p>\n

Okay, which one do you like best? Great choice! Now let\u2019s proceed with the review.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I walked in already knowing I Love Boosters<\/strong> wouldn\u2019t be conventional. What I didn\u2019t know was how far Boots was willing to go. It\u2019s far. It\u2019s being marketed as an offbeat crime comedy about urban young people who make a living boosting expensive designer clothes from high-end stores and selling them on the street at a discount. That\u2019s what it is…. initially. At a certain point, Boots veers off into far left field by introducing elements of sci-fi into the mix.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Corvette (Palmer, One of Them Days), the leader of \u201cThe Velvet Gang\u201d, has a personal stake in the criminal enterprise she\u2019s running with her friends Sade (Ackie, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) and Mariah (Paige, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F). She\u2019s out to get Christie Smith (Moore, The Substance), a hard-edged businesswoman who sees herself as more than a designer. She does live-streams where she babbles about fashion being transformative art. She also runs a chain of pretentious fast fashion stores called Metro Design. That\u2019s where Corvette and company obtain their inventory.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Corvette blames Christie for her failed career as a designer. Not only did she lose a contest held by the mean maven, she also stole her design and claimed it as her own. Corvette is out to destroy her enemy by cleaning out every one of her stores in the Bay Area. To that end, she and her friends get jobs at one of the stores with the intention of emptying it of its entire inventory. What they didn\u2019t count on was somebody beating them to the punch. A mysterious woman (Liu, Dead Ringers), who has an agenda of her own, shows up and vacuums every article of gaudy clothing into her bag. What happens from here, I won\u2019t say. I\u2019ll only tell you it takes I Love Boosters<\/strong> to another realm of the surreal.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s a fine line between brilliance and insanity. I Love Boosters <\/strong>doesn\u2019t just blur it; it erases it completely. At times, I couldn\u2019t believe what I was seeing. I thought maybe I had fallen asleep and it was all just a dream playing out. Boots, aided by cinematographer Natasha Braier, fills every frame with bright colors (especially the costumes) and sets that look a few steps removed from reality. Christie lives in a building that tilts like a certain tower in Italy. Visitors to her apartment find themselves either sliding down the floor or fighting an uphill battle to reach the door. Another recurring visual has Corvette being chased a la Indiana Jones by a giant ball of bills and other worrisome things that threaten to crush her. There\u2019s other cool stuff, but I wouldn\u2019t dream of spoiling any of the kooky surprises in store for those who bravely buy a ticket to the utter madness that is I Love Boosters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0What a cast! All of them do a marvelous job. They hold I Love Boosters <\/strong>together with their willingness to lean right into the weirdness without hesitation. Palmer continues to prove she\u2019s leading lady material. Hell, she showed it as a child in Akeelah and the Bee (2006). Ackie and Paige provide ample support even if their characters are as developed as one would like. Moore is awesome as the antagonist, a business who buys into her own delusion of being an artist. Will Poulter (Death of a Unicorn) is hilarious as a clueless company man who micromanages a Metro Design like it\u2019s the only thing he has going in his life. Eiza Gonzalez (In the Grey) earns laughs as a seemingly vapid store employee who talks like a physicist and acts as the fashion world version of Cesar Chavez. LaKeith Stanfield (Get Out) pops up now and then as a mysterious man who intrigues Corvette. That\u2019s all I\u2019ll say about him. Buy a ticket if you want to know.<\/p>\n

\u00a0More than just a surreal comedy, I Love Boosters<\/strong> is a giant middle finger to capitalism. It freely expresses his anger at an industry that allows unfair and unsafe work practices so wealthy people can be fashionable. It sees the irony of having poor people make clothes they could never afford and yanks it into the light for all to see. It\u2019s an angry film, but in a darkly amusing way. This is clearly not a film that mass audiences will embrace. It\u2019ll have a limited appeal at best. Boots Riley understands this and moves forward with complete confidence. As a filmmaker, he\u2019s got a big set of stones. I Love Boosters<\/strong> is proof of that.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I Love Boosters (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Neon\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 105 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong sexual content, nudity, language throughout, brief drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Boots Riley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Boots Riley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tune-Yards\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Natasha Braier\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 22, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, Demi Moore, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-playing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/I-Love-Boosters-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C918&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14541,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions\/14541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}