‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Keke Palmer Takes Charge in Boots Riley’s Playfully Out-There Riff on Shoplifting, Sisterhood and Fashion Madness

‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Keke Palmer and Demi Moore in Boots Riley’s Blisteringly Funny, Joyfully Rousing Anti-Capitalist Satire

Keke Palmer stars in Boot's Riley's 'I Love Boosters,' a comedy about a band of professional shoplifters, with Demi Moore and Don Cheadle.

'I Love Boosters' Review: Keke Palmer Steals Hearts in Boots Riley’s Galaxy-Brained, Anti-Capitalist Romp

Early on in Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters,” a silly, scathing, scattered and bittersweet skewering of fashion, exploitation and more, we glimpse a giant boulder that seems to be hurtling towards Keke Palmer’s creative (though undervalued) fashion designer Corvette. As we soon see, this boulder is not made of stone, but of something even more crushing: the weight of capitalism. It’s made of eviction notices, the bills that pile up and all the de…

‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Keke Palmer Deconstructs Capitalism With Absurdist Stakes In Boots Riley’s Surreal Sophomore Film

Boots Riley kicked off SXSW 2026 with a surreal, hyperpop love letter to creatives living under capitalism.

‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Boots Riley’s Crazy Fashion Heist Comedy Is Both Stoner Movie and Anti-Capitalist Protest Art

Read IndieWire's review of 'I Love Boosters,' premiering at SXSW and starring Keke Palmer, Taylour Paige, and Naomi Ackie.

‘I Love Boosters’ Review: Keke Palmer Takes Charge in Boots Riley’s Playfully Out-There Riff on Shoplifting, Sisterhood and Fashion Madness

Eight years after "Sorry to Bother You," Riley's second feature puts three shoplifters through a reality-hopping parable of consumer desperation.

I Love Boosters SXSW Review: Boots Riley's Latest Satire Is a Singular Work

Rarely do you come across a film that is truly original in that it is unlike anything you have ever seen, but that description feels valid for I Love Boosters. From the mind of Boots Riley, the creator of the indie breakout Sorry to Bother You and the under-the-radar Prime Video gem I’m a Virgo, the dark comedy I Love Boosters is sure to go down as one of the year’s weirdest, most visionary movies — but it’s all the better for it. What is I Love…