Review: “I Love Boosters”

Boots Riley is a loud artist. He’s loud in his visual approach to storytelling, crafting gloriously chaotic collages of color and mixed media, running the gamut from stop-motion animation and practical effects to in-camera stunt work and idiosyncratic original soundtracks. And he’s loud in his rhetoric. Riley’s incendiary 2018 feature directorial debut, Sorry to Bother […]

Review: “Nope”

I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle. Writer and director Jordan Peele opens his third feature film, “Nope,” with that verse from the Bible’s Book of Nahum, effectively laying out the movie we are about to see. For spectacle is what “Nope” is all about, although not […]