In a near-future Bay Area where corporate control and economic disparity have reached absurdist extremes, Corvette assembles a stylish, inventive crew of professional shoplifters, or 'boosters', who steal from luxury fashion boutiques and resell the goods at a discount, framing their crimes as a kind of community service. Their sights soon turn to Christine Smith, a hilariously detached, toxic fashion-industry CEO, in an escalating, high-fashion heist that blends anti-capitalist satire with the surreal, genre-bending imagination that has defined writer-director Boots Riley's caree
Review:
A live-action leftist looney tune bursting with colour and creativity, equal parts hysterical and pointed, confirming Riley's rare gift for surreal social satire that feels truer than reality itself.