As usual, as the year comes to a close and the awards season ramps up a tonne of great movies thunder into cinemas.
Among them, a film called Sorry To Bother You from first-time filmmaker Boots Riley.
Get Out star Lakeith Stanfield leads the charge here as Cassius Green, our telemarketing antihero struggling to survive in an alternate reality not too dissimilar from our actual reality, where success and slavery breathe the same oxygen.
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After struggling to make any headway in his new job, we watch as the African-American Cassius gets his "white voice" on and rises swiftly up the telemarketing ranks to become a power caller. His promotion will open up a whole new world and all of a sudden, Cassius Green is a success.
It's a world where the fires of corporate greed are stoked by the masses, where the success of those masses demands a hefty price paid with blind ignorance and packaged up for our viewing pleasure as a very dark very comedic and nigh on profound cinematic parable.
This is seriously my kind of batshit-crazy satire and was about as much fun as I can have legally in a cinema. Ingeniously fresh and borderline freakish as well as whip smart clever and darkly funny.
You really have no idea what you're in for. Until you're in.
The supporting cast from Tessa Thompson to Armie Hammer alongside the small but perfectly-formed outings from Danny Glover and Terry Crews makes Sorry To Bother You one of this year's must-see movies.
Four-and-a-half stars.
Newshub.
