Given the groundbreaking tools at their disposal, modern filmmakers are only limited by their imaginations. Boots Riley isn’t lacking in that department, and yet, as evidenced by I Love Boosters, he has little idea how to harness his various ideas, his latest a smorgasbord of hastily sketched cultural and political ideas that would barely elicit engagement on TikTok. Simplistic, scattershot, and—worst of all—unfunny, it’s a social commentary-laced crime comedy of insufferable proportions.I Love Boosters (May 22, in theaters) is in line with the auteur’s prior Sorry to Bother You and I’m A Virgo, insofar as it’s a candy-colored hodgepodge whose…


