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How Boots Riley Made a ‘Feel-Good’ Movie About Capitalist Exploitation

Keke Palmer leads a crew that steals designer clothes and gives them back to the community in Boots Riley’s satire about capitalist exploitation.

Summary by Time Magazine
Boots Riley at the SXSW Film Festival —Hubert VestilIn Boots Riley's new movie, I Love Boosters, hard-up shoplifters wage war against a derivative fashion billionaire who relies on sweatshop labor and drops racist epithets almost as often as she calls herself a visionary. Societal loneliness is cured by way of a pyramid scheme led by a prosthetics-laden Don Cheadle, and a giant ball of eviction notices stalks people through the streets of San Fr…

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Essence broke the news on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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