I Love Boosters
Showtimes
June 24:5:00 pm, 7:00 pmJune 25:5:00 pm, 7:00 pm“I Love Boosters” is a comedy of capitalist desperation. It follows Corvette and her two comrades, Sade (Naomi Ackie) and Mariah (Taylour Paige), who together form an outlaw trio of shoplifters known as the Velvet Gang. Their motto is “Fashion. Forward. Philanthropy.” They’re inner-city Robin Hoods of couture: They steal from fancy stores and hawk the clothes at discount prices out of car trunks and bathroom stalls. The movie is about how they go up against a fabled designer, the monomaniacal Christie Smith (Demi Moore), who’s a genius of branding but orchestrates her diva empire as a form of control.In a Boots Riley film, you know that control is the enemy, because the director stages things in a way that deliberately spins out of orbit. Yet it’s not arbitrary — he’s creating a stylized version of the real world. “I Love Boosters” might have had the makings of a more conventional commercial comedy, but the way Riley works it’s like a ticky-tacky version of “The Devil Wears Prada” meets “Set It Off” meets “Ghostbusters.”-Variety
